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Published: Tue Jan 30 2018
Diego Isaias Hernández Méndez, Convertiendse en Characoteles / Sorcerers Changing into Their Animal Forms (detail), 2013, oil on canvas. Arte Maya Tz’utujil Collection.
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Maggie Smith’s most recent collections are Good Bones (Tupelo Press, forthcoming September 2017) and The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo, 2015). Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, AGNIKenyon Review, The Best American Poetry 2017, and elsewhere. In 2016 her poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, and the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Smith is a freelance writer and editor. (updated 10/2017)

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