Tracy K. Smith's four poetry collections are The Body's Question (2003), Duende (2007), Life on Mars (2011) and Wade in the Water (2018). She won the Pulitzer Prize for Life of Mars. She is also the author of a memoir, Ordinary Light, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. In 2017 she was named Poet Laureate of the United States. She teaches at Princeton University.
Smith's poetry is an awakening itself * Vogue * Deftly, Tracy K. Smith, the reigning poet laureate of the United States, illuminates America's generational wounds * New York Magazine * Smith is a storyteller who loves to explore how the body can respond to a lover, to family, and to history -- Hilton Als * The New Yorker *