Danez Smith is the winner of a 2014 Ruth Lilly/Dorothy Sargent
Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. They are the
author of Homie (Graywolf), Don't Call Us Dead (Graywolf),
"[insert] boy" (YesYes Books, 2014), one of the Boston Globe's Best
Poetry Books of 2014, & two chapbooks- "black movie" (Button
Poetry, 2015), winner of the 2014 Button Poetry Prize, & "hands on
ya knees" (Penmanship Books, 2013).
Smith is a Cave Canem, VONA, and McKnight Foundation Fellow. Their
writing has appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Beloit Poetry
Journal, Narrative & elsewhere. They were featured in The Academy
of American Poets' Emerging Poets Series by Patricia Smith. They
are a founding member of the multi-genre, multicultural collective
Dark Noise. Danez placed second at the 2014 Individual World Poetry
Slam and is the two-time Rustbelt Regional Champion. In 2014, they
were the Festival Director for the Brave New Voices International
Youth Poetry Slam. Danez holds a BA from UW-Madison where they were
a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar. They live in Minneapolis, MN.
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