{"id":234,"date":"2016-06-01T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/?page_id=234"},"modified":"2016-06-01T12:47:31","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T16:47:31","slug":"current-writer-residence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/writers-in-the-library\/writers-in-residence\/current-writer-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Writer-in-Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Erin Elizabeth Smith to be Writer-in-Residence at UT Libraries<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/06\/ErinElizSmith-2.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/06\/ErinElizSmith-2.jpg\" alt=\"ErinElizSmith-2\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10333\" \/><\/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<p>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, <em>The Naming of Strays<\/em> (Gold Wake 2011) and <em>The Fear of Being Found<\/em>, which will be re-released by Zoetic Press in 2016. Smith&#8217;s poetry and nonfiction have appeared in <em>32 Poems, Mid-American, The Yalobusha Review, New Delta Review, Florida Review, Third Coast, Crab Orchard, West Branch<\/em>, and <em>Willow Springs<\/em>, among others. <\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>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<p>__<br \/>\nFor further information contact Chris Caldwell, Humanities Librarian at University Libraries: 865-974-0019 or <a href=\"mailto:ccaldwell@utk.edu\">ccaldwell@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Elizabeth Smith to be Writer-in-Residence at UT Libraries 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/writers-in-the-library\/writers-in-residence\/current-writer-residence\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":51,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Current Writer-in-Residence - Writers in the Library - Libraries: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/writers-in-the-library\/writers-in-residence\/current-writer-residence\/\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/\",\"name\":\"Writers in the Library\",\"description\":\"Libraries: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/writers-in-the-library\/writers-in-residence\/current-writer-residence\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/06\/ErinElizSmith-2.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/writers-in-the-library\/writers-in-residence\/current-writer-residence\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/writers-in-the-library\/writers-in-residence\/current-writer-residence\/\",\"name\":\"Current Writer-in-Residence - Writers in the Library - Libraries: The University of Tennessee, Knoxville\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/writers-in-the-library\/writers-in-residence\/current-writer-residence\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-06-01T16:26:12+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-06-01T16:47:31+00:00\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/writers-in-the-library\/writers-in-residence\/current-writer-residence\/\"]}]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/234\/revisions\/236"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/writers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}