Maggie Smith is the author of Weep Up (Tupelo Press, 2018), The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005), and three prizewinning chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Plume, TriQuarterly, the Kenyon Review, the Southern Review, and elsewhere. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Smith is a freelance writer and editor.