Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith is the author of The Body's Question (Graywolf Press, 2003), winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Callaloo, The Nebraska Review, Gulf Coast, Columbia, Poetry Daily, Poetry 30, and elsewhere. She is a recipient of a 2004 Rona Jaffe Writers Award and a 2005 Whiting Writer's Prize, and is an assistant professor of creative writing at Princeton University. Her second collection, Duende, won the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets and was published by Graywolf Press in spring 2007.Posted on February 16, 2005 6:20 AM