Bill Robertson and Steven Ross Smith, writers, on campus.

Bio/Historical Note: Image appeared in 22 Jan. 1999 issue of OCN.

Bio/Historical Note: Steven Ross Smith (born 1945) is a Canadian poet, sound poet, fiction writer, arts journalist and arts activist. He is best known for his fluttertongue poems, which have been published in six volumes. Smith's poetry first appeared in 1972 in the blewointment press anthology, what isint tantrik speshul, and his first chapbook, White Cycle, came out in 1977. In all, he has published nine books of poetry and two volumes of fiction. In 2006, Smith also published a collection of his newspaper profiles of 40 Saskatchewan artists. In 2015 he published "Emanations: Fluttertongue 6" with Toronto's BookThug. In 1996-1997, Smith served as writer-in-residence at the Saskatoon Public Library. From 1990 to 2008, he was executive director of the Sage Hill Writing Experience, a ten-day summer school in Saskatchewan for professional writers. Smith was director of Literary Arts at the Banff Centre from 2008 to 2014. Since June 2018 he has been Banff Poet Laureate, both in Banff and as of 2020, at-large, carrying out initiatives for Banff and beyond from his Saskatoon home (2022).