Biography
Soili Smith is a writer, scholar, coach, organizer and the 2025-2027 W.P. Bell Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Indigenous and Critical Canadian Studies at 糖心传媒. Originally from Squamish nation and later Leidli T鈥檈nneh territories, her scholarly and creative work concerns Anglo-Canadian nationalism, Diasporic Black and Indigenous literatures, and the genre of the counter-narrative. Their work has appeared in Joyland, Ideas and Futures, Minola Review, among other places.
Publications
Scholarship
Smith, Soili. Dissertation, Imagining Canaan: Anglo-Canadian Nationalism and the Discourse of Refuge. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 2025.
Fiction
Smith, Soili. 鈥淲ho Is, Who Was, and Who Is to Come.鈥 Ideas and Futures. 2020.
Smith, Soili. MFA Thesis, Sasquatch. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 2017.
Smith, Soili. 鈥淵our Children Are Not Your Own.鈥 Joyland Retro. New York, New York. 2017.
Smith, Soili. 鈥淵ou I Remember.鈥 Minola Review. Toronto, Ontario. 2016. Online.
Smith, Soili. 鈥淵our Children Are Not Your Own.鈥 Joyland. New York, New York. 2016.
Poetry
Smith, Soili. 鈥淒on鈥檛 Be Too Old For This.鈥 Concordia Magazine. Montreal, Qu茅bec. 2015.
Smith, Soili. 鈥淏ellerium.鈥 Hobart Pulp. 2015.
Education
B.Sc. Biology, University of Northern British Columbia
B.A. with Honors, English Literature and Creative Writing, Concordia University
M.F.A., Creative Writing-Fiction, Rutgers University-Newark
Ph.D., American Studies, Rutgers University-Newark