Tracy K. Smith was awarded the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, selected by Kevin Young, for The Body's Question, winner of a 2005 Whiting Writers Award. Her second collection, Duende (Graywolf Press, 2007), won the 2006 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets She is the recipient of a 2004 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Callaloo, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Gulf Coast, The Nebraska Review, Post Road, and in such anthologies as Poetry 30, Poetry Daily, and Autumn House. She holds degrees in English and Creative Writing from Harvard College and Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University 1997-99. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Princeton University.