claytonmccann
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Bio
Clay McCann completed his Ph.D. in social anthropology at McMaster University. His research concerns the plight of the outlaw craft cannabis farmer, Canada's misguided efforts at corporate cannabis production, and women toiling at illicit value-added cannabis production firms. McCann earned his anthropology MA conducting fieldwork among marijuana workers in the southern interior of British Columbia (2014), and his MFA writing about their lives (2017). He studied craft under Tom Wayman at the Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, BC, and anthropological fieldwork under Dr. Naomi McPherson, UBC - Okanagan. Recent work includes: Lead Editor, The High North: Cannabis in Canada (2022, UBC Press), “Kootenay Cannabis: Outlaw Farmers in the High Country.” Exhibition essay, “The Grow Show” 2022, Touchstones Museum, Nelson BC; literary work in the anthology, Moss: A Journal of the Northwest 1.1, Canadian Literature #212, SubTerrain 61, and academic work in Policy Options No./Vol; Anthropologica 54:2, and ACME: International E-Journal of Critical Geographies (#14). His collection of creative nonfiction and essays, Burdens of Pleasure: Creative Nonfiction from Canada’s Illicit Cannabis Production Industry, is under consideration. See his complete chapbook collection, the first seven issues of Nelson's Mercury Magazine, as well as audio recordings of live performances at claytonmccann.wordpress.com.