David Smith

American writer David Smith (1942- ), also known as Dave Smith, is known for his poetry, which often assumes a Southern tone and “distinct regional sense of place.” Smith has been known to write about Maryland, Wyoming, Utah, and the “Virginia tidewater region.”

Smith’s works include Bull Island, The Fisherman’s Whore,  which was published in 1974 by the Ohio University Press, Cumberland Station, Goshawk, Antelope, and Homage to Edgar Allan Poe.

Smith is the poetry editor of the Southern Review at Louisiana State University. Smith’s awards include National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry in 1976 and 1981, the Virginia Prize in Poetry in 1988, and the Prairie Schooner Reader’s Award in 1995.

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2004. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: The Gale Group. 2004.