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Maggie Smith

Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith is the author of several books, most recently the national bestsellers Goldenrod and Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change. Her debut memoir, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, will be out in April 2023. Smith’s poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, the Guardian, the Paris Review, Tin House, The Nation, the Washington Post, and The Best American Poetry. You can find her on social media @MaggieSmithPoet.


Maggie Smith on the Anxious, Silent First Year of Motherhood

“What had I done, insisting on more of us?”
April 12, 2023  By Maggie Smith
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Singer-Songwriter Margo Price on Finding Truth and Joy in Writing a Memoir

Maggie Smith Talks to the Author of Maybe We'll Make It
January 12, 2023  By Maggie Smith
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Mary Laura Philpott on Facing the Unexpected and Absurd with Humor

The Author of Bomb Shelter In Conversation with Maggie Smith
April 12, 2022  By Maggie Smith
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Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

“If a poem is a machine made of words, it only runs as well as the words we choose to build it.”
July 27, 2021  By Maggie Smith
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