Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Creative Director at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Managing Editor of Sundress Publications and The Wardrobe. She is the author of two full-length collections, most recently The Naming of Strays from Gold Wake Press, and the editor of two anthologies. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Guernica, Ecotone, Mid-American, Crab Orchard Review, and Willow Springs, among others. She is a Distinguished Lecturer in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, and in 2017 she was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.