Erin Elizabeth Smith

Erin Elizabeth Smith is an American poet, editor, publisher, and educator.

Biography
Smith, originally from Lexington, South Carolina, holds a B.A. in English from Binghamton University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. She currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections as well as a chapbook. Smith lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where she serves as the Executive Director of the Sundress Academy for the Arts, a writers residency and arts collective.

In 1999, Smith founded Stirring: A Literary Collection, now one of the oldest continually-published literary journals on the internet. A year later, she founded Sundress Publications, a literary organization that publishes several online journals as well as chapbooks and full-length poetry collections in both print and electronic formats. In 2006, Smith founded the Best of the Net Anthology, also published by Sundress.

From 2022-2024, Smith served as the inaugural Poet Laureate for the City of Oak Ridge, TN.

Poetry collections


Chapbook

Reviews

 * The Naming of Strays reviewed by Anne Barngrover
 * The Naming of Strays reviewed by Karen J. Weyant
 * The Fear of Being Found reviewed by Gary Charles Wilkens
 * The Fear of Being Found reviewed by Wendy Whelan