Clint Smith
Clint Smith is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University and has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, and the National Science Foundation. He is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and was a speaker at the 2015 TED Conference. His writing has been published or is forthcoming in The New Yorker, The Guardian, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere.
He is the author of Counting Descent (2016) and was born and raised in New Orleans.