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Todd Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on Good Friday in 1966. He grew up in St-Lambert, Quebec. During his high school and university years he was a champion debater, and at college President of CUSID. He has also worked as a TV writer, and has produced credits for HBO, Paramount, Hanna-Barbera and The CBC. He is a winner of a Young Quebecer of the Year Award, and has been short-listed on several occasions for The Irving Layton Poetry Prize. He has twice been the Quebec representative for The League of Canadian Poets. He is the author of three poetry collections, Budavox, Café Alibi and Rue du Regard, from DC Books, Montreal. Geist selected Budavox as one of its “five best books of 1999”. He is an editor of many poetry anthologies, including 100 Poets Against The War; and compiled the recent audio CD Life Lines: Poets for Oxfam. He has been poetry editor of the award-winning online magazine www.nthposition.com since 2002, and Oxfam GB Poet In Residence since 2004. He is editing an anthology of twentieth-century Canadian Poetry for Carcanet, forthcoming later this decade. His reviews appear in such places as Magma, Books In Canada and The Globe and Mail. His poems have been anthologized in Canada, Ireland, the United States and the United Kingdom, such as in Open Field (Persea Books, NYC, 2005) and The New Canon (Véhicule, Montreal, 2005). His poems have appeared in many of the leading international magazines, including Poetry Review, New American Writing, London Magazine, Poetry London, Agenda, Stand, Jacket, Salon, and The Manhattan Review and have been broadcast around the world, on ABC, BBC, CBC and RTE radio. Wired On Words, the Montreal label, released his spoken word CD, The Envelope, Please, created with composer Tom Walsh, in 2002. He has a creative writing MA (Distinction) from the University of East Anglia (UEA). He lives in London, with his wife, where he works as a reviewer, university lecturer and Core Tutor for The Poetry School.
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