Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Creative Director at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the author of two full-length poetry collections, The Naming of Strays (Gold Wake Press 2011) and The Fear of Being Found, which was rereleased from Zoetic Press in 2016. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared in numerous journals, including Ecotone, Mid-American, Florida Review, 32 Poems, Willow Springs, Third Coast, and Crab Orchard Review. She also teaches in the English Department at the University of Tennessee where she is also the Jack E. Reese Writer in the Library and serves as the Managing Editor for Sundress Publications and The Wardrobe.