Erin Elizabeth Smith
Erin Elizabeth Smith is an American poet, editor, publisher, and educator. Biography. Smith, originally from Lexington, South Carolina, holds a B.A. in English from Binghamton University, an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi. She currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Tennessee. She is the author of three full-length poetry collections as well as a chapbook. Smith lives in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where serves as the Executive Director of the Sundress Academy for the Arts, a writers  residency and arts collective. In 1999, Smith founded "Stirring: A Literary Collection", now one of the oldest continually-published literary journals on the internet. A year later, she founded Sundress Publications, a literary organization that publishes several online journals as well as chapbooks and full-length poetry collections in both print and electronic formats. In 2006, Smith founded the "Best of the Net Anthology", also published by Sundress. Bibliography. Poetry Collections. Chapbook