Todd Swift

Todd Swift
Born	Stanley Todd Swift April 8, 1966 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Residence	United Kingdom
Nationality	Canadian British
Alma mater	Concordia University
Occupation	Poet, editor, publisher and critic
Website	http://www.eyewearpublishing.com

Todd Swift (born April 8, 1966) is a British-Canadian poet, university teacher, editor, critic, and publisher based in the United Kingdom.

Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and raised in Saint-Lambert, Quebec. He received a B.A. in English from Concordia University (Montreal) and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of East Anglia. He became British on April 3, 2013, at Westminster Town Hall, Marylebone, London.

While attending university, Swift was one of Canada's most successful parliamentary debaters. He was President of the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate and twice won the award for Top Speaker at the McGill University Winter Carnival Debating Tournament, as well as many other awards. In Montreal, he also ran the international cabaret, Vox Hunt, which featured, among others, regular performances by Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright. As a young man, Swift was friends with a number of Canada's rising literary stars, including Misha Glouberman, Heather O'Neill, and David McGimpsey. Swift was also half of the electronic music-poetry duo Swifty Lazarus, also featuring composer-trombonist Tom Walsh. In the 1990s, Swift wrote hundreds of hours of television (mostly animation) for HBO, Paramount, Hanna-Barbera, Fox, Cinar and DIC Entertainment, and was story editor for many episodes of anime show Sailor Moon. He also worked for editor Ned Hartley at General Media, Inc. (Penthouse) for several years as a writer and editor of erotica.

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