Tamsin Spencer Smith

Tamsin Spencer Smith is a poet, essayist, and painter. Her debut collection "Word Cave" was released by Risk Press in early 2018. Her poems appear in the verse anthologies "Everything Indicates" (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Press, 2012), "Lightning Strikes: 18 Poets, 18 Artists" (San Francisco, CA: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, 2015), "Love in the Face of Everything" (Mill Valley, CA: Tamalpais Press, 2017), and "Reverberations: A Visual Conversation" (Sebastopol, CA: Risk Press, 2018). Smith attended...See more

Tamsin Spencer Smith is a poet, essayist, and painter. Her debut collection "Word Cave" was released by Risk Press in early 2018. Her poems appear in the verse anthologies "Everything Indicates" (Berkeley, CA: Heyday Press, 2012), "Lightning Strikes: 18 Poets, 18 Artists" (San Francisco, CA: Dolby Chadwick Gallery, 2015), "Love in the Face of Everything" (Mill Valley, CA: Tamalpais Press, 2017), and "Reverberations: A Visual Conversation" (Sebastopol, CA: Risk Press, 2018). Smith attended Kenyon College, where she graduated with highest honors for her thesis on Vladimir Nabokov. She's a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, where she gives an annual poetry reading. Smith was born in Cambridge, England, and lives in San Francisco with her son and daughter. See less