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Edgar Smith (born August 8, 1973) is a Dominican author and poet born in Villa Consuelo, a neighborhood in the capital city of Santo Domingo. He is the eldest child of Juana I. Fernández and Ramón Smith, a member of the International Taekwon-Do Federation Hall of Fame. He is a poet, writer, editor and translator, who runs his own small publishing company, Books & Smith, in New York City, where he has resided since 2010.
Background
His poems and short stories have been included in anthologies and magazines, such as Antología Poética Solo Para Locos, Multilingual Anthology: The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2016, Voces de Nuevo Siglo, Voces del café, Trazos, Hybrido, The official Lacuhe Gazette, and Dualis Dualis, among others.
In 2017, he was elected as Director of The International Dominican Book Fair (FILDOM) by the cultural organization Hispanic Heritage Cultural Organization.
Books
- Poetry
- Smith, Edgar (2013). Algunas Tiernas Imprecisiones (in Spanish). ISBN 9780989719315.
- Smith, Edgar (2016). Versenal (in Spanish). ISBN 9780989719353.
- Smith, Edgar (2014). Island Boy (in Spanish). ASIN B00ONB9DGO.
- Smith, Edgar (2017). Randomly, a poem. lulu.com. ISBN 1365888053.
- Smith, Edgar (2017). Verso y Lágrima (in Spanish). lulu.com. ISBN 9781387337842.
- Smith, Edgar; Siller, Silvia (2018). Tandava (in Spanish). CreateSpace. ISBN 1718993935.
- Short story books
- Smith, Edgar (2014). El Palabrador (in Spanish). ISBN 0989719308.
- Smith, Edgar (2016). Cuentos raros (in Spanish). ISBN 0989719340.
- Smith, Edgar (2016). The Wordsmith. lulu.com. ISBN 9781365645105.
- Smith, Edgar (2018). Puro cuento (in Spanish). CreateSpace. ISBN 9781979983143.
- Novels
- Smith, Edgar (5 March 2015). La Inmortalidad del Cangrejo (in Spanish). ISBN 0989719332.
- Smith, Edgar (2017). Gnuj & Alt. lulu.com. ISBN 9781365747571.
- Smith, Edgar (2018). arrimao (in Spanish). lulu.com. ISBN 9781387364725.