Mike Schertzer (born May 27, 1965, in Brantford, Ontario) is a Canadian poet and artist. Schertzer graduated in 1987 from the University of British Columbia with a B.Sc. in biology, and lived for some time in Vancouver, British Columbia. In 2017 he obtained a PhD from the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie/Sorbonne Universités (ED515, Complexité du Vivant). He currently lives and works in Paris, France. According to his personal homepage, he has worked as a research technician since 1987, and as of 2009, he has been employed as a molecular biologist at the Curie Institute in Paris, France. Of his artistic work, he says He claims to have devised the longest acronym in the English language, Acronymic in his book Cipher and Poverty.

Books

The following are some books by Schertzer:

Performances and interventions