Erin Elizabeth Smith

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

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 two full-length poetry collections as well as a chapbook. Smith lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where she coordinates weekend workshops for writers in the Knoxville area.

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. Since 2006, Smith has edited the Best of the Net Anthology, also published by Sundress.

• The Naming of Strays reviewed by Anne Barngrover [1]
• The Naming of Strays reviewed by Karen J. Weyant [2]
• The Fear of Being Found reviewed by Gary Charles WIlkens [3]
• The Fear of Being Found reviewed by Wendy Whelan [4]