Kirkpatrick has been named dean of libraries for Smith College. Most recently serving as the dean of university libraries at ...

Jamaal May, described by the Boston Review as a “poet as machinist”, writes exquisite paths between the melancholy and the sublime. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, May explores themes of ...

Danez Smith is the author of Don’t Call Us Dead, a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award which circles their Black, queer, and HIV positive status. At once haunted, sensual, explosive and ...

Paisley Rekdal is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Nightingale (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), a book described as “riveting poetic alchemy” that rewrites many of the myths of ...

Karen Poppy '98 was in the first class to participate in The Poetry Center at Smith College, and has fond memories of that. She came back to writing poetry and fiction last year, after an almost 20 ...

Laura Passin is the author of Borrowing Your Body (Riot in Your Throat, 2021) and All Sex and No Story (Rabbit Catastrophe Press). She earned her PhD in English Literature at Northwestern and her MFA ...

John Slepian’s artwork has been shown nationally and internationally at venues including P.S.1/MoMA and Hunter College art galleries in New York; the Exploratorium in San Francisco; Axiom Gallery, ...

Katy Schneider teaches drawing and painting at Smith College. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and of awards from the National Academy of Design and ...

Jessica Jacobs’ new book, unalone (Four Way Books, 2024), engages in conversation with the Book of Genesis, exploring how one of humanity’s most ancient texts comes alive for a queer Jewish woman ...

It was clear that Smith would support me in many ways—financially, academically and beyond. I found this to be unique compared to other institutions. I knew I would feel safe and cared for at Smith.

Rachael Chase is a professional designer of residential architecture in western Massachusetts. Her work is focused on clean, warm and modern whole-house renovations; creating new from the old while ...