Smokii Sumac is a Ktunaxa and transmasculine poet whose first book of poetry, you are enough: love poems for the end of the world was published in 2018 by Kegedonce Press.
[4] Formerly, he was a PhD Candidate in Indigenous Studies at Trent University, where he researched "coming home" stories from a Ktunaxa adoptee and two-spirit perspective.
[7] He has performed at various events and venues including the Queer Arts Festival in 2018 and PoetryNOW: 11th Annual Battle of the Bards in 2019.
In 2020 Sumac was named as a finalist for the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBTQ writers.
[9] Literary critic James Mackay discusses Sumac's work as a product of social media, comparing it to Instapoetry, arguing that "the hashtags in Sumac's work serve to restructure the poems away from being singular units and into becoming fluid and interlinked units of a larger discussion.