Keri Smith author page

Keri Smith biography

Keri Smith is a Canadian author, illustrator and conceptual artist. Her books combine drawing, writing, collecting, observation and reader participation.

Smith’s published books include Wreck This Journal, This Is Not a Book, How to Be an Explorer of the World, Mess, Finish This Book, The Pocket Scavenger, Everything Is Connected, The Imaginary World Of…, The Wander Society, The Line and Wreck This Picture Book.

Wreck This Journal asks readers to complete activities that alter the book itself, including drawing, marking, damaging and adding materials to its pages. The UK Penguin edition, Wreck This Journal: To Create is to Destroy, Now With Even More Ways to Wreck!, was published in paperback on 22 April 2013.

Smith has led workshops based on her books and formerly taught conceptual illustration at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her author biography describes her work as creating “Open works”, pieces completed by the reader or user.

Her installation work includes The Society for Exploratory Research for Urban Play in Copenhagen in 2012, her role as “Resident Thinker” for Alex Hartley’s Nowhere Island in 2013, and The Wander Society Adventure Lab at Olana in 2019.