Erin Elizabeth Smith is an American poet, editor, publisher, and educator.
Biography
Smith, originally from Lexington, South Carolina, holds a B.A. in English from Binghamton University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Illinois,[1] and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. She currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Tennessee.[2] She is the author of three full-length poetry collections as well as a chapbook.[3] Smith lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where she serves as the Executive Director of the Sundress Academy for the Arts, a writers residency and arts collective.
In 1999, Smith founded Stirring: A Literary Collection, now one of the oldest continually-published literary journals on the internet. A year later, she founded Sundress Publications, a literary organization that publishes several online journals as well as chapbooks and full-length poetry collections in both print and electronic formats.[4] In 2006, Smith founded the Best of the Net Anthology, also published by Sundress.[5]
From 2022-2024, Smith served as the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Oak Ridge, TN.
Bibliography
Poetry collections
- DOWN. Stephen F. Austin State University Press. 2020.[6][7]
- The Naming of Strays. Gold Wake Press. 2011.[8][9]
- The Fear of Being Found. Three Candles Press. 2008.[10][11]
Chapbook
Reviews
References
- ↑ "UIUC Creative Writing Program". Archived from the original on 2009-07-16. Retrieved 2012-08-29.
- ↑ "UT Knoxville | Department of English - First-Year Composition". web.utk.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-07-05.
- ↑ "Erin Elizabeth Smith".
- ↑ "Sundress Publications // About Sundress".
- ↑ "Best of the Net Anthology".
- ↑ "Down".
- ↑ "Down: An Interview with Erin Elizabeth Smith by Hannah V Warren". 3 March 2021.
- ↑ http://goldwakepress.org/print-series/
- ↑ "Read This Awesome Book: The Naming of Strays by Erin Elizabeth Smith". 3 January 2012.
- ↑ "THE FEAR OF BEING FOUND - Erin Elizabeth Smith : Small Press Distribution". Archived from the original on 2010-09-13. Retrieved 2012-08-18.
- ↑ "RATTLE e-Review: THE FEAR OF BEING FOUND by Erin Elizabeth Smith".
- ↑ "Milk & Cake Press". 12 September 2023.
- ↑ "Dancing girl press".