At a ceremony on campus in May, 14 retiring faculty members were honored for a combined 484 years of service to Smith.

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 ...

Bettina Judd’s work is imbued with the echoes of history and the weight of injustice. Her new book, Patient., explores the history of gynecology, memory, and trauma. Following her own hospitalization ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poet, dramatist, novelist, and musician Carl Hancock Rux recently released a volume of poems, Pagan Operetta, and a spoken word/music CD from Sony, entitled Rux Revue, which explores combinations of ...

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 ...