MAGGIE SMITH is the award-winning author of Good Bones: Poems, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison: Poems, Lamp of the Body, and the national bestsellers Goldenrod: Poems and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. A 2011 recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship, Smith has also received several Individual Excellence Awards from the Ohio Arts Council, two Academy of American Poets prizes, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has been widely published, with her work appearing in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Poetry, and more. You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir (Atria/One Signal Publishers) is her latest book.