Tracy K. Smith

Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator whose collection Life on Mars won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2011. She served as the 22nd poet laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. Her poetry also includes Duende, Such Color, The Body's Question and Wade in the Water, and she wrote the memoir Ordinary Light, published in 2015. Smith was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2023.