She also hosted American Public Media's daily radio program and podcast The Slowdown, which is sponsored by the Poetry Foundation. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She teaches at Harvard University, where she is a professor of English and of African and African American Studies and the Susan S. Duende, her second book, received the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. No wonder: her father was one of the engineers of the Hubble telescope.
And like the most sensitive of telescopes, Smith looks powerfully and precisely, scattering her collecting array across the globe and the surrounding space. She has also written a memoir, Ordinary Light (2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award in nonfiction. Smith is the twenty-second Poet Laureate of the United States and recipient of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Life on Mars. Smiths Pulitzer Prize-winning volume Life on Mars explores some of the same big questions.
In 2014 she was awarded the Academy of American Poets fellowship. Smith is the author of four books of poetry: The Body's Question (2003), which won the Cave Canem prize for the best first book by an African-American poet Duende (2007), winner of the James Laughlin Award and the Essense Literary Award Life on Mars (2011), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and Wade in the Water (2018).
From 1997 to 1999 she held a Stegner fellowship at Stanford University. She earned a BA from Harvard University and an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. Smith envisions a sci-fi future sucked clean of any real dangers, contemplates the dark matter that keeps people both close and distant, and revisits the kitschy concepts like love and illness now relegated to the Museum of Obsolescence. Smith was born in Massachusetts and raised in northern California.
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