Smith’s poems have appeared in a wide variety of publications, journals and anthologies and she has read her work at venues round the world. She is a four-time national individual champion of Poetry Slam. She also authored “Africans in America,” a companion volume to the groundbreaking four-part PBS history series. An instructor of poetry, performance and creative writing, Smith is a Cave Canem faculty member, as well as a former Bruce McEver Chair in Writing at Georgia Tech University. In 2006, she was inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent.