Maggie Smith
An Ohio native, Maggie Smith received her MFA from Ohio State University. Her first book of poems, Lamp of the Body, won the 2003 Benjamin Saltman Award and was published by Red Hen Press in 2005. She is also the author of two prizewinning chapbooks, Nesting Dolls (Pudding House 2005) and The List of Dangers (Kent State University Press 2010), a Wick Poetry Series selection. Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Iowa Review, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast, Florida Review, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals and anthologies.
A recipient of a 2011 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has also received three Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, and several Pushcart Prize nominations. She currently lives in Bexley, Ohio, with her husband and young daughter.
