Smokii Sumac is a proud member of the Ktunaxa nation. He is a PhD Candidate in Indigenous Studies at Trent University, where his research centres on “coming home” stories from a Ktunaxa adoptee and two-spirit perspective.
Smokii’s work has been published in Write Magazine, and under his former name (he is a man of many names) in Canadian Literature, Aanikoobijigan//Waawaashkeshi and on coffee sleeves as one of the winners of Peterborough’s e-city lit’s arts week contest in 2014. In 2020 he was shortlisted for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers.
He is on the faculty at the College of the Rockies and currently resides in Kimberley, British Columbia.
