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Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1977, Maggie Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful; the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change; as well as Good Bones, named one of the Best Five Poetry Books of 2017 by the Washington Post and winner of the….
- Poems | Maggie Smith
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- Maggie Smith | Award-winning poet, author, essayist, and ...
When I’m not writing, teaching in an MFA Program, or editing...
- Poems | Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is an American poet, freelance writer, and editor who lives in Bexley, Ohio. Smith's poem "Good Bones," originally published in the journal Waxwing in June 2016, has been widely circulated on social media and read by an estimated one million people.
- "Good Bones" (2016)
- 1977 (age 45–46), Columbus, Ohio, U.S.
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Oct 6, 2020 · Smith, previously a little-known (even for poets) poet who lived in Ohio and had published her collections with tiny independent presses, was featured in the Washington Post, on Slate, on PRI,...
Apr 11, 2023 · Bexley Poet Maggie Smith on Publishing Her Memoir, “You Could Make This Place Beautiful”. The Central Ohio native and author of the viral poem “Good Bones” discusses the craft of writing, the joys of self-discovery and motherhood, and her debut memoir, out April 11. Emma Frankart Henterly. Columbus Monthly.
May 4, 2023 · The author of “You Could Make This Place Beautiful” finds poetry and hard-won peace in a suburb east of Columbus. “I have friends of 20 to 25 years who live within a block of me, in either ...
Maggie Smith was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1977. She received a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University in Ohio and an MFA from Ohio State University. Smith is the author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017), named one of the Best Five Poetry Books of 2017 by the Washington Post and the winner of the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medal in ...
