Colby Cedar Smith grew up in the Midwest, and she still dreams of the cold northern woods and the smell of lake water. She holds degrees from Colorado College and Harvard University. In 2020 Colby received a NJ Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, Harper Palate, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, Potomac Review, Saranac Review, Spillway, and The Iowa Review, among others. Her debut novel, CALL ME ATHENA, will be published by Andrews McMeel on April 6, 2021. Colby lives with her husband and two children in Hopewell, NJ and teaches creative writing at the Arts Council of Princeton. |