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 Mount Allison University. Originally from Squamish nation and later Leidli T’enneh 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. “Who Is, Who Was, and Who Is to Come.” Ideas and Futures. 2020.
Smith, Soili. MFA Thesis, Sasquatch. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. 2017.
Smith, Soili. “Your Children Are Not Your Own.” Joyland Retro. New York, New York. 2017.
Smith, Soili. “You I Remember.” Minola Review. Toronto, Ontario. 2016. Online.
Smith, Soili. “Your Children Are Not Your Own.” Joyland. New York, New York. 2016.
Poetry
Smith, Soili. “Don’t Be Too Old For This.” Concordia Magazine. Montreal, Québec. 2015.
Smith, Soili. “Bellerium.” 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