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.By Stephen Petrick with photography by Bernard Clark

Carolyn Smart’s life is an open book. She has written about nearly every important aspect of her life — the good, the bad, the shocking and sad — and exposed it to the public. After publishing six books of both poetry and prose and contributing to dozens of anthologies, she has few secrets about her successful but, at times, difficult life.

She admits this without regret. Writing, she explains, is a healing activity. It has helped her deal with her mother’s death, an unhappy first marriage and even childhood abuse. And her incredible dedication to the craft has helped her lead a productive career. At age 58, she is a long-time professor at Queen’s University and an award-winning author whose work has been used in songs and dramatic plays.

“Perhaps some people would say I’ve been too free with my personal information,” she says in an interview from her Harrowsmith-area home. “But it’s always been who I am.”

A particularly sad passage in her 2001-published memoir, At the End of the Day, reads, “I am a storyteller to keep all these things clear to myself. That’s why I’m telling myself this story now, fear in my chest like a cantaloupe, fingers twitching. I have to tell myself this story once and for all so I’ll know it’s not a dream. . . . .”

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