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Smith, Tracy K

LC control no.no2003106238
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3619.M5955
Personal name headingSmith, Tracy K.
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeFairfield (Calif.) Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) Princeton (N.J.)
LocatedMassachusetts
Birth date1972-04-16
Place of birthFalmouth (Mass.)
Field of activityEducation, Higher Poetry Editing Translating and interpreting Libretto
AffiliationHarvard University
Columbia University
Stanford University
City University of New York. Medgar Evers College
University of Pittsburgh
Princeton University
Profession or occupationPoets Poets laureate College teachers Authors Editors Librettists
Found inThe body's question, 2003: t.p. (Tracy K. Smith) cover p. 4 (lives and teaches in Brooklyn, New York)
Greywolf Press website, "Thomas Sayers Ellis and Tracy K. Smith win Whiting Writers' Awards", accessed Oct 17, 2007 ("[Smith] received degrees from Harvard and Columbia universities and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University")
Wikipedia, viewed April 27, 2018 (Tracy K. Smith; American poet and educator; born April 16, 1972; a native of Falmouth, Massachusetts; raised in Fairfield, California; currently resides in Princeton, N.J., and teaches creative writing at Princeton University; has taught at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, the University of Pittsburgh, and Columbia University; winner of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012 and the Academy of American Poets fellowship in 2014; named U.S. poet laureate in 2017)
The best American poetry 2021, 2021: dust jacket (Tracy K. Smith teaches at Harvard. Guest editor. Served as United States Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2019. She has written her memoir, Ordinary Light)
To free the captives, 2023: dust jacket (Tracy K. Smith is a librettist, a translator, and a poet. She lives in Massachusetts)
Associated languageeng