by Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith is an American poet, memoirist, and educator born on April 16, 1972, in Falmouth, Massachusetts. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019 and won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Life on Mars. She is a professor at Harvard University and has published five poetry collections and two memoirs.