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 ...

The Smith eDigest is sent to all campus email accounts on Tuesday and Thursday each week during the academic year and on Tuesdays during the summer. Items for eDigest are limited to official Smith ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I fell in love with Smith when I visited during my sophomore year of high school. I felt so safe and at home—I had found my people. I knew that this was a place where I could not only be authentically ...

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 ...

The Smith College Sophian called Lenelle Moïse ’04 “a slam-style poet, playwright, actor, author and queer feminist [who] fuses issues of race, class, gender, sexuality and politics.” Moïse, who ...

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 ...