Kay Smith

Clara Kathleen "Kay" Smith (April 30, 1911 - Septembre 18, 2004) is a Canadian poet.

Life
She was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, to Charles Webber Smith, a fish merchant, and Margaret (Mirey) Smith. At 14 she published her first poem, after winning a contest sponsored by the Buffalo, New York, Sunday Times. She graduated from Saint John High School in 1928, and then attended Mount Allison Ladies' College in Sackville, New Brunswick. Until 1933.

Smith had hoped to enroll in the Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York, but was financially unable to during the Depression, instead opening a nursery school in Saint John with a friend. In 1934 she joined the Saint John Theatre Guild, and acted in a number of amateur plays. In the summer of 1934 she studied acting at Columbia University in New York.

In 1942 Smith began teaching English and drama at the Saint John Vocational School, where she would teach for the next 30 years. While there she directed the school's annual Shakespeare play, the only such production in the province.