Danez Smith

Danez Smith is an American Black poet that made a name for himself writing highly evocative and award-winning poetry. Smith believes himself to be many persons and therefore loves to go by the pronoun “They”. They are the writer of one of the most crucially acclaimed collection of poems titled “[Insert] Boy” that won the 2017 Gay Poetry at the Lambda Literary Awards. His other popular collection “Don’t Call Us Dead” was a 2017 National Book Award finalist in 2017. Danez is a Minnesota born and raised native who went to Central High School before proceeding to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he earned his bachelors as a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar. Even as the family is from Georgia and Mississippi, Danez is a holder of a Masters of Fine Arts that he attained from the University of Michigan.