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Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for her 2011 volume Life on Mars.
POET • MEMOIRIST• EDITOR LIBRETTIST • TRANSLATOR. Official Website of the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Life on Mars.
Smith is the author of four books of poetry: The Body's Question (2003), which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African-American poet; Duende (2007), winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Essense Literary Award; Life on Mars (2011), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; and Wade in the Water (2018).
Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator who served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She is the author of five poetry collections: Such Color (2021), Wade in the Water (2018), Life on Mars (2011) (which won a Pulitzer Prize), Duende (2007), and The Body’s Question (2003).
May 9, 2024 · Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972, Falmouth, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American poet and author whose writing often confronts formidable themes of loss and grief, nascent adulthood, and the roles of race and family through references to pop culture and precise descriptions of intimate moments.
Learn about Tracy K. Smith, the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States and the author of five poetry collections, including Such Color and Life on Mars. Explore her memoirs, translations, podcasts, awards and academic roles.
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Tracy K. Smith was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on April 16, 1972, and raised in Fairfield, California. She studied at Harvard University, where she joined the Dark Room Collective, a reading series for writers of color, created by Sharan Strange in 1988.
