Clint Smith (writer)

Clinton Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of Counting Descent, a 2017 poetry collection that was a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards and won Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. Smith is also a doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a regular contributor to the Pod Save the People podcast, where he discusses the week's news with a panel of other activists.[1]

Clinton Smith III
Smith in 2019
Born (1988-08-25) August 25, 1988
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Alma materDavidson College (BA)
Harvard University
Known forPoetry, writing, activism
Websitewww.clintsmithiii.com

Early life

Smith grew up in New Orleans, where he went to Benjamin Franklin High School prior to enrolling at the Awty International School in Houston, Texas.[2] He attended college at Davidson College, graduating in 2010.[3]

Career

He taught high school English in Prince George's County, Maryland before beginning doctoral work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society. His research focuses on race, mass incarceration and education.[4]

He was part of the winning team at the 2014 National Poetry Slam[5] and was a 2017 recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from The American Poetry Review.[6] He published his first book of poetry, Counting Descent, in 2016.[7] It won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association[8] and was a finalist for the NAACP Image Awards.[9] He was on the 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 list[10] and Ebony's 2017 Power 100 list.[11]

Smith has also been a contributor to The New Yorker magazine.[12] His work is included in the anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016), edited by Jesmyn Ward.[13]

A fan of the Arsenal F.C. football (soccer) club, Smith has written several New Yorker essays on the sport.[14]

Personal life

Smith resides in Maryland with his wife and two children.[15]

References
  1. "Pod Save the People". crooked.com. 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  2. Smith, Clint (March 1, 2016). "Donald Trump, David Duke, and the Soccer Fields of Louisiana". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  3. "The New Yorker: Clint Smith '10 on Trump, Duke and Disavowal". www.davidson.edu. Davidson College. March 2, 2016. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  4. Alford, Natasha S. (October 3, 2016). "#GrioAuthorsCircle: Clint Smith reads excerpt from new book 'Counting Descent'". The Grio. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  5. Dingfelder, Sadie (August 15, 2014). "D.C.'s Beltway Poetry Slam triumphs at the National Poetry Slam". Washington Post. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  6. "Shestack Prizes Awarded to Clint Smith & Marie Howe". August 31, 2017.
  7. "Through Poetry And TED Talks, Clint Smith Probes Racism In America". WBUR. November 28, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  8. "BCALA Announces the 2017 Literary Awards Winners". January 21, 2017.
  9. "NAACP Image Award Nominations Announced". NAACP. December 13, 2016.
  10. "30 Under 30 2018: Media". Forbes.
  11. "The EBONY Power 100 2017". Ebony.
  12. Wile, Rob (May 18, 2016). "This Historian Explains How America Became Resegregated, in 11 Tweets". Fusion. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  13. "The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race". www.simonandschuster.com. 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
  14. Smith, Clint (March 12, 2018). "The Agony of Being an Arsenal Fan". The New Yorker.
  15. "About Clint Smith".
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