Keri Smith

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Keri Smith is a Canadian author, illustrator and conceptual artist.

Her work includes topics such as imperfection and impermanence from a visual arts perspective.^[1] Smith is also a freelance illustrator. Since fall 2010, she teaches part-time at Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.^{[citation needed]} In 2013 she became "Resident Thinker" for the piece Nowhereisland by artist Alex Hartley in the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. ^{[2][non-primary source needed]}

Smith's book Wreck This Journal encourages readers to expand their scopes of creativity.^[3] She is also credited with This Is Not a Book (2009, Penguin Group) a mostly blank book intended to prompt creative responses from purchasers.^{[citation needed]}

Her books include Wreck This Journal, The Wander Society, This is Not a Book, How to Be an Explorer of the World, Mess, Finish This Book, The Pocket Scavenger, Wreck This Journal Everywhere, Everything Is Connected, and The Imaginary World of… as well as Wreck This App, This is Not an App, and the Pocket Scavenger app.