Phil Smith

Phil Smith is a former perfesser uv Special Education, and received the Emerging Scholar Award in Disability Studies in Education in 2009. a Mad poet, playwright, novelist, and visual and performance artist, his creative work includes books of poetry and photographs. his work includes books like the recent "tinfoil hats: stories by mad people in an insane world" (2023, autonomous press)and "writhing writing: moving towards a mad poetics" (2018, Autonomous Press, winner of the 2020 American Educational Studies Association Critics Choice Award). For more than 30 years, in a variety of contexts and roles, he has worked as a disability rights activist, and served on the boards of directors of a number of organizations, including the Society for Disability Studies, where he was president. He’s Mad (but not, mostly, angry) as hell. he lives on the side of a mountain at 1800 feet, where moose, owls, and bald eagles peek in the windows of his cabin.