Hannah Smith is a writer from Dallas, Texas, where she is the Poetry Editor at Deep Vellum and the Production Manager at Southwest Review.
Her poems appear in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner Ninth Letter, Quarterly West, Image Journal, and elsewhere. She received an MFA in Poetry from the Ohio State University, and a BA in History from Stanford University. Her writing has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writing Conference and the Yaddo Residency.
Hannah is the co-author of the collaborative chapbooks Metal House of Cards (Finishing Line Press, 2024) and Astral Gaze (dancing girl press, forthcoming), written with poet Amanda Maret Scharf.
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Winner of the 2021 Vandewater Poetry Prize, judged by Tina Cane:
“This trio of poems captivates because each, informed by a strong sense of place, is also infused by the presence of larger systems at work—nature, weather, God. There's something expansive and precarious going on here. And it has to do with wisdom.”