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Russell Smith was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and grew up in Halifax, Canada. He began his career as a writer in Toronto after studying at universities in France and Canada.
His first novel, How Insensitive, was published in 1994 and nominated for the Governor General's Award, the Trillium Award, and the Chapters/Books In Canada First Novel Award, and became a bestseller in Canada. He is also the author of the novel Noise (1998), an illustrated fable, The Princess and the Whiskheads (2002), and story collection, Young Men (2011).
He has written for The New York Review of Books, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, NOW, and many other publications. He has also appeared on television and radio programs, including serving as the host of CBC Radio One program “And Sometimes Y.’
He has taught creative writing in the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Guelph, and at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Several of his former students have published novels and memoirs. He has been writer-in-residence at the Toronto Reference Library and at Berton House in Dawson City, Yukon.
He is currently an acquiring editor of fiction and non-fiction at Dundurn Press.