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 with her partner, Raphael Allison, and their daughter.
Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including The New Yorker, Boulevard, Callaloo, A Journal of Literature and Art, Gulf Coast, Nebraska Review, Post Road, and West Branch.
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.
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).
Duende (2007), Graywolf Press; won the 2006 James Laughlin Award.
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