Tracy K. Smith

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African-American poet who won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Life on Mars. Her other works include Duende and The Body’s Question.

She graduated from Harvard University in 1994 and earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University three years later.

She won the James Laughlin Award for poetry in 2006.

She married Raphael Allison, with whom she had three children.

Smith won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012. Fellow poet Sharon Olds won the same honor the following year.

Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published four collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015.

Smith received her B.A. from Harvard University, where she studied with Helen Vendler, Lucie Brock-Broido, Henri Cole and Seamus Heaney. While in Cambridge, Smith joined the Dark Room Collective. She graduated in 1994, then earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, she was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.

Smith has taught at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. She taught summer sessions at Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College in 2011, 2012, and 2014 and was the 2014 Robert Frost Chair of Literature.

Her book Ordinary Light: A Memoir, about race, faith and the dawning of her poetic vocation, was a finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2015.

Smith was a judge for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.

In 2018, Smith began hosting the podcast and radio program The Slowdown.

In April 2018, she was nominated for a second term as United States Poet Laureate by Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.

Smith has received praise throughout her books for her questions on relationships, identity and sexuality. Hilton Als of The New Yorker writes: “Part of the gorgeous struggle in Smith’s poetry is about how to understand and accept her twin selves: the black girl who was brought up to be a polite Christian and the woman who is willing to give herself over to unbridled sensation and desire.”

Dan Chiasson writes of another aspect of the collection: “The issues of power and paternalism suggest the deep ways in which this is a book about race. Smith’s deadpan title is itself racially freighted: we can’t think about one set of fifties images, of Martians and sci-fi comics, without conjuring another, of black kids in the segregated South. Those two image files are situated uncannily close to each other in the cultural cortex, but it took this book to connect them.”

In 2006 she joined the faculty of Princeton University, where she was made a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities. On July 1, 2019, she became Chair of Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts.

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