Ron SmithRon Smith is the author and editor of several books. His most recent book, The Defiant Mind: Living Inside a Stroke, was long-listed for the George Ryga Prize and won the Independent Publishers IPPY gold medal for memoir. For close to forty years he aught at universities in Canada, Italy, the United States and the UK. In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia and in 2005 he was the inaugural Fulbright Chair in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. In 2011 he was awarded the Gray Campbell Award for distinguished service to the British Columbia publishing industry. He now lives with his wife, Patricia Jean Smith, also a writer, in Nanoose Bay, B.C. Read More Read Less