Danez Smith Bio | Wiki
Danez Smith is an African-American writer, poet, and performer based in St. Paul, Minnesota. They are queer, non-binary, and HIV-positive. Danez is the author of the poetry collections Insert Boy and Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems. Both collections have received multiple awards. Danez’s most recent poetry collection titled Homie was published on January 21, 2020.
Danez Smith Age
They were born in 1989, in Minnesota, United States of America. Danez is 33 years old.
Danez Smith Height
The African-American writer is of average stature. They stand at an average stature of 5 ft 8 in ( Approx 1.73m)
Danez Smith Family | Minnesota
They were born and raised by parents in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. They are Queer ( an umbrella term for people who are not heterosexual or are not cisgender). Danez grew up with their mother and grandparents in the Selby Neighborhood and their family is from Mississippi and Georgia.
Danez Smith Education
They attended and graduated from Central High School. Danez has said that they struggled with reading up until the third grade. A teacher told Danez that being able to read would allow them to read video-game magazines, which inspired them. Danez was a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 2012
Danez Smith Poet | Poem | Poems
Danez is a founding member of Dark Noise Collective alongside Aaron Samuels, Nate Marshall, Franny Choi, Fatimah Asghar, and Jamila Woods. Danes joined Macklemore with Jamila Woods in February 2016 for a performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Their writing has been published in Poetry (magazine) as well as Ploughshares. Danez was the inaugural guest of the Alexander Lawrence Posey Speaker Series on March 30, 2017, at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Currently, Danez serves as the co-host of the poetry podcast called VS from the Poetry Foundation alongside Franny Choi. In 2017, Danez with the National Endowment for the Arts grant. Their sonnet sequence “summer, somewhere” received the inaugural Four Quartets Prize from the Poetry Society of America in 2018.
Danez Smith Homie
Danez became the youngest recipient of the £10,000 Forward Prize for best poetry collection at the age of 29 as Don’t Call Us Dead beat out works by former Forward winner Vahni Capildeo and U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith. Currently, Danez serves on the board of directors for the D.C.-based poetry non-profit Split This Rock. They published a third poetry collection titled Homie in 2020. In 2021, Homie won the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry.
Danez Smith Don’t Call Us Dead | Insert Boy
They authored three books. In 2014, one of the books titled Insert Boy won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, with jurist Chase Twitchell describing Danez’s poetry as “remarkable for its nervy, surprising, morally urgent poems.” Also, Insert Boy was selected as a Boston Globe Best Poetry Book in the same year. Their second book titled Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems, was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for poetry.
Danez Smith Black Movie
Danez’s third book titled Homie was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry as well as the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Poetry. They authored two chapbooks, one of them is hands on your knees (2013, Penmanship Books) and the other one is the black movie (2015, Button Poetry), winner of the Button Poetry Prize. Danez has been a finalist in Individual World Poetry Slam two times. In 2011, they were a finalist and placed second in 2014.
Danez Smith Dinosaurs In The Hood | Poems
– “poem where I be & you just might” (Poetry Society of America)
– “Dinosaurs in the Hood” (Poetry, December 2014)
– “The bullet was a girl” (Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, September 3, 2015)
– “Principles” (video from Brave New Voices Festival, July 2016)
– “You’re Dead, America” (Buzzfeed, November 9, 2016)
– “C.R.E.A.M.” (Poem-a-Day by the Academy of American Poets, February 1, 2017)
– “Don’t Try Us” (Fader, May 1, 2017)
– Selection from “summer, somewhere” (The New York Times, June 9, 2017)[
Danez Smith Acknowledgements
– Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship in 2014
– Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry in 2015
– Norma Farber First Book Award, Finalist in 2015
– Kate Tufts Discovery Award in 2016
– NEA fellowship for creative writing in 2017
– National Book Award for Poetry, Finalist in 2017
– Forward Prize for best poetry collection in 2028
– Four Quartets Prize- in 2018
– Minnesota Book Award for Poetry in 2021
Danez Smith Quotes
– “history is what it is. it knows what it did.”
– “i’ll plant a garden on top where your hurt stopped.”
– “prediction: the cop will walk free
prediction: the boy will still be dead”
– “they murder us for the crime of their imaginations”
– “i spent my life arguing how i mattered until it didn’t matter.”
– “I know something that doesn’t die can’t be beautiful”
Danez Smith Books
– Insert Boy (2014)
– Don’t Call Us Dead (2017)
– Homie (2020)
– hands-on your knees (2013, Penmanship Books)
– black movie (2015, Button Poetry)
– Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018)
Danez Smith Net Worth
An African-American writer, poet, and performer with an estimated net worth of $2,583,295
How Old Is Danez Smith
Danez is 33 years old. They were born in 1989, in Minnesota, United States of America.
How Tall Is Danez Smith
Danez is of average stature and stands at an average stature of 5 ft 8 in ( Approx 1.73m)