Theresa D. Smith recieved her MFA at Purdue University, where she also served as poetry editor of Sycamore Review. She recently completed her first collection of poems, tentatively titled The Dark Makes Room for Them. In April, she received an Academy of American Poets Prize in a contest judged by Ely Shipley. Her poetry appears or is forthcoming in Kestrel, Mad Poets Review, and The Aurorean.

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