Steven Ross Smith, Banff Poet Laureate, 2018-21, loves music, walks on beaches, and is fascinated by moss. His work often juxtaposes disparate threads, as in his poetic seven-book series fluttertongue. He’s been effective too as a literary activist, on behalf of writers—speaking, teaching, organizing, collaborating, editing, presenting, and writing journalistic pieces on literary and visual art. His fourteenth book is Glimmer: Short Fictions, from Radiant Press, 2022. He recently published two chapbooks with Saskatchewan’s Jackpine Press. Newest to appear, in 2024, is The Green Rose, a collaboration with Phil Hall, as a chapbook from above/ground press in Ottawa. Over many years Smith has migrated westward from Toronto and now lives and writes in Victoria, BC.