Creative Writing Reading Series - Conversations with Maggie Smith

Renowned Ohio poet and best-selling author Maggie Smith will hold a live conversation about her writing with students in the Creative Writing program. Smith is the author of seven award-winning books: Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, Lamp of the Body, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, and Good Bones, named by the Washington Post as one of the Five Best Poetry Books of 2017, Keep Moving, and Goldenrod. Her most recent poetry collection, A Suit or a Suitcase, was published by Washington Square Press in 2026.