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