Merril D. Smith

A Thousand Shades of Green

Merril D. Smith lives in southern New Jersey near the Delaware River. Her work has been published widely in poetry journals and anthologies, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, Feral, Sidhe Press, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Storms, Fevers of the Mind, Gleam, Humana Obscura, and Nightingale and Sparrow. She holds a Ph.D. in American history from Temple University in Philadelphia and is the author/editor of numerous books on gender, sexuality, and history. Her full-length poetry collection, River Ghosts (Nightingale & Sparrow Press) was Black Bough Poetry’s December 2022 Book of the Month.

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https://merrildsmith.org/