
Maggie Smith is the author of the national bestseller Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (One Signal/Simon & Schuster 2020); Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press 2015), winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Kimiko Hahn; and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press 2005), winner of the Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award; and three prizewinning chapbooks. Smith's poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Poetry, Image, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, AGNI, Guernica, Brevity, the Washington Post, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and many other journals and anthologies. In 2016 her poem “Good Bones” went viral internationally and has been translated into nearly a dozen languages. In April 2017 the poem was featured on the CBS primetime drama Madam Secretary. A 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, Maggie Smith works as freelance writer and editor. She is an Editor at Large at the Kenyon Review and is also on the faculty of Spalding University's low-residency MFA program.
Books

Keep Moving
Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change
2020

The List Of Dangers
2010

Good Bones
2017

My Thoughts Have Wings
2024

Disasterology
2016

Goldenrod
Poems
2021

You Could Make This Place Beautiful
A Memoir
2023

The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison
2015

Lamp of the Body
2005

Keep Moving
The Journal: Thrive Through Change and Create a Life You Love
2021

Dear Writer
Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
2025