Background
Smith was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1977.
Smith was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1977.
Ohio State University. Ohio Wesleyan University.
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1999, and then went on to receive her Master of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University in 2003. From 2003–2004, Smith served as the Emerging Writer Lecturer for Gettysburg College. She went on to take a position as an assistant editor with a children"s trade book publisher.
She worked there for two years and became an associate editors
Eventually, she decided to make the switch to freelance work. As a poet, she has been published widely, individual poems appearing in The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, and other journals.
Her work has also been widely anthologized in "From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright. The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 2008.
Apocalypse Now: Poems and Prose from the End of Days, and The Helen Burns Anthology: New Voices from the Academy of American Poets University & College Prizes, Volume 9." National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in creative writing.