{"id":10330,"date":"2016-06-01T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/?p=10330"},"modified":"2016-06-01T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:00:53","slug":"erin-elizabeth-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/erin-elizabeth-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Elizabeth Smith to be Writer-in-Residence at UT Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ErinElizSmith-2\"<\/a>Erin Elizabeth Smith will serve as the Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Libraries for the 2016-2017 academic year. As Writer-in-Residence, she will organize the Writers in the Library series, sponsored by the UT Libraries and the UT Department of English. Writers in the Library brings local, regional, and nationally-known authors to the John C. Hodges Library to read from their works.<\/p>\n

Smith teaches poetry writing, public writing, and a variety of literature and genre classes including Women in American Literature and Introduction to Poetry at UT. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections, The Naming of Strays<\/em> (Gold Wake 2011) and The Fear of Being Found<\/em>, which will be re-released by Zoetic Press in 2016. Smith’s poetry and nonfiction have appeared in 32 Poems, Mid-American, The Yalobusha Review, New Delta Review, Florida Review, Third Coast, Crab Orchard, West Branch<\/em>, and Willow Springs<\/em>, among others. <\/p>\n

She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a PhD from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Smith lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where she is the Creative Director for Sundress Academy for the Arts at Firefly Farms, a Knoxville-area artists\u2019 retreat.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The position of Writer-in-Residence was established in 1998 and in 2005 was named in honor of the late Jack Reese, a former chancellor of the university, longtime UT English professor, and avid support of the UT Libraries and the local writing community.<\/p>\n

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\nFor further information contact Chris Caldwell, Humanities Librarian at University Libraries: 865-974-0019 or ccaldwell@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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