Robert Lavett Smith

Robert Lavett Smith lives in San Francisco. He holds a B.A. in French from Oberlin College, where he also studied creative writing with Stuart Friebert and David Young, and an M.A. in English with an emphasis in writing from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Charles Simic and Mekeel McBride. After graduating from UNH, he joined the Master Class at the 92nd Street YMHA in New York City, studying with the late Galway Kinnell. In addition to Collected Early Poems, he has authored four small-press chapbooks and four previous full-length efforts, Sturgeon Moon, The Widower Considers Candles, Smoke In Cold Weather: A Gathering of Sonnets, and Everything Moves With A Disfigured Grace.