Clint Smith

Clint Smith is a poet, essayist, and doctoral candidate at Harvard University. He has written for Wildness in issues 10 and 19. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Paris Review. His poetry collection Counting Descent (2016) won a 2017 ALA Black Caucus award and was an NAACP Image Award finalist. He also won the 2014 National Poetry Slam and received the 2017 Jerome J. Shestack Prize.