Ethel Morgan Smith is the author of From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College and Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany. She has published in national and international journals. She's a Fulbright Scholar (Germany) Rockefeller Foundation Fellow (Bellagio, Italy), American Academy Rome, Virginia Center for Creative Artists, PLAYA, Bread Loaf, and Brandies University-Women's Studies Research Center.