Tracy K. Smith
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Tracy K. Smith (b. April 16, 1972, Falmouth, Massachusetts) is a prize-winning African American poet who teaches at Princeton University. She lives in Brooklyn.[1]
Her poems have appeared in journals such as Boulevard, Callaloo, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Gulf Coast, Nebraska Review, Post Road, West Branch.[2]
She has a B.A. from Harvard, an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University from 1997–1999. Currently she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Princeton University.[1]
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[edit] Books
- The Body’s Question (2003), Graywolf Press; won the 2002 Cave Canem Prize for the best first book by an African-American poet (selected by Kevin Young[2]).[1]
[edit] Contributor
- Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century
- The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry
- Gathering Ground : A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade
- Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Poetry Website
- Poetry 30: Thirty-Something Thirty-Something American Poets
[edit] Awards, grants, fellowships
- Grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation
- Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
- Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award.
- Whiting Writers' Award in 2005 for poetry.
- James Laughlin Award in 2006 for poetry.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c [1] Bios of 2005 Whiting Writers' Award Recipients - Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, retrieved 9-20-06
- ^ a b [2] Tracy K. Smith Web site, biography page, retrieved October 28, 2006
James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets 2006
[edit] External links
- [3] "The official Web site for poet Tracy K. Smith"
