In today's episode of Wordsmith, Kelly Van Nelson interviews Jeff Cottrill.

Jeff Cottrill is a journalist, fiction writer, and performance poet based in Toronto, Canada. His performance style is influenced by slam conventions, but he subverts them with wit, ironic humour and a satirical tone. He has headlined in countless literary series throughout Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. over the past twenty years. Jeff has authored four chapbooks and recorded three CDs, and he is currently working on his seventh or eighth attempt at a first novel.