Patricia Smith is a poet and author from Chicago. She has published multiple collections of poetry, including Incendiary Art, Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah, and Blood Dazzler. She also published the children’s book Janna and the Kings.
Smith has received a Guggenheim fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pushcart Prize twice. Currently, Smith is a Distinguished Professor for the City University of New York, an instructor in the MFA program at Sierra Nevada University, and in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Post-Graduate Residency Program.
Information from Smith’s website.
