Erin Elizabeth Smith

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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 two full-length poetry collections as well as a chapbook.^[3] Smith lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where she coordinates weekend workshops for writers in the Knoxville area.^[4]

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.^[5] Since 2006, Smith has edited the Best of the Net Anthology, also published by Sundress.^[6]

Bibliography[]

Poetry Collections[]

• The Naming of Strays. Gold Wake Press. 2011.^[7][8]
• The Fear of Being Found. Three Candles Press. 2008.^[9][10]

Chapbook

• The Chainsaw Bears. Dancing Girl Press. 2008.^[11]

Reviews[]

• The Naming of Strays reviewed by Anne Barngrover [1]
• The Naming of Strays reviewed by Karen J. Weyant [2]
• The Fear of Being Found reviewed by Gary Charles Wilkens [3]
• The Fear of Being Found reviewed by Wendy Whelan [4]

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