According to the New York Daily News, the poems in “Life on Mars” are inspired by Smith’s father, who died in 2008.
Smith, who earned a bachelor’s degree at Harvard and went on to receive an MFA from Columbia, began teaching at the University in 2006 after posts at the City University of New York, the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia.
This semester, Smith is teaching a section of CWR 202: Creative Writing (Poetry). In the fall, she will teach a section of CWR 201: Creative Writing (Poetry).
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