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Hannah Smith is a writer from Dallas, Texas, where she works as the Production Manager for Southwest Review & New Pony Press.
Hannah’s poetry manuscript, Common Prairie, was a 2023 National Poetry Series Finalist and a Jake Adam York Semifinalist. She is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net Nominee, and her poetry appears in Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, 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, where she also played Division I lacrosse.
She is the co-author of two collaborative chapbooks, Metal House of Cards (Finishing Line Press, 2024) and Astral Gaze (dancing girl press, 2025), both written with poet Amanda Maret Scharf.
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.”