This collection was the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and A New Yorker, Library Journal and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, among other awards.įocused on themes of discovery, failure, and the oddities of humanity, Smith reveals delicate beauty in this science fiction poetry collection. Smith comes the beautiful and notable collection Life On Mars. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities, and Director of the Creative Writing Program, at Princeton University.From Poet Laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith has taught at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York, the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University. From 1997 to 1999, she was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University.
Smith earned a BA in English and American literature and Afro-American studies from Harvard University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. In 2016, she won the 16th annual Robert Creeley Award and Columbia University’s Medal for Excellence. In 2014, the Academy of American Poets awarded her with the Academy Fellowship, given to one poet each year to recognize distinguished poetic achievement. Smith is also the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light (2015), a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Nonfiction and selected as a Notable Book by The New York Times and The Washington Post.įor her poetry, Smith has received a Rona Jaffe Writers Award and a Whiting Award. She is the author of four books of poetry, including Wade in the Water (2018) Life on Mars (2011), winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Duende (2007), winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award and the 2008 Essence Literary Award and The Body’s Question (2003), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Smith was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, in 1972, and raised in Fairfield, California.
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