Dave Smith is the Chairman of the Writing Seminars Department and Elliot Coleman Professor of Poetry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. He was previously the Boyd Professor of English and coeditor of The Southern Review at Louisiana State University. He has also taught at the University of Florida, the University of Utah, Virginia Commonwealth University, the University of Binghamton, and Bennington College. His 18th collection of poetry, Hawks on Wires, was published in November 2011 through Louisiana State University Press. He has also published a novel and a collection of stories, two books of essays, and his most recent book is a collection of essays co-edited with Robert DeMott, called Afield: Writers on Bird Dogs. Smith's books have earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry, and a Lyndhurst Fellowship. Two of his books of poetry, Cumberland Station and Goshawk, Antelope were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He is an elected member of the Fellowship for Southern Writers.

(Source: The Poetry Foundation.)