Colby Cedar Smith

Colby Cedar Smith is an award-winning poet, novelist, and educator, and the author of two verse novels THE SIREN AND THE STAR (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming fall 2025) and CALL ME ATHENA (Andrews McMeel, 2021). Her work has been chosen as a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection, an American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick, a Cybils Award Poetry Finalist, a Goodreads Choice Best Poetry Nominee, a Kid's Book Choice Nominee, Independent Publisher Book Award, a Nautilus Award, a Michigan Notable Book, The Midwest Book Award for YA Fiction, and a New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. You can find her on Instagram @colby_cedar_smith.