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Erin Elizabeth Smith

Erin Elizabeth Smith

Erin Elizabeth Smith

Distinguished Lecturer

1203B McClung Tower
esmith83@utk.edu
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Biography

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Executive Director for Sundress Publications and the Sundress Academy for the Arts. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently DOWN (SFASU 2020), and her work has appeared in Guernica, Ecotone, Crab Orchard, and Mid-American, among others. Smith is a Distinguished Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and the Poet Laureate of Oak Ridge, TN.

Education

  • PhD, University of Southern Mississippi Center for Writers
  • MFA, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • BA, Binghamton University

Regularly Taught Courses

  • English 251: Introduction to Poetry
  • English 254: Themes in Literature- Queer Poetry
  • English 255: Public Writing- Writing for Advocacy
  • English 363: Writing Poetry