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'''Danez Smith''' is a Black, [[queer]], nonbinary, HIV-positive writer and performer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/bio-encore/|title=Bio|website=Danez Smith. Poet.|language=en-US|access-date=2017-09-20 | '''Danez Smith''' is a Black, [[queer]], nonbinary, HIV-positive writer and performer from Saint Paul, Minnesota.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/bio-encore/|title=Bio|website=Danez Smith. Poet.|language=en-US|access-date=2017-09-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.them.us/story/danez-smith-is-winning-awards-and-our-hearts|title=Nonbinary Poet Danez Smith Is Winning Awards — And Our Hearts|last=Stewart|first=Chris|website=them.|language=en|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref> They are the author of the poetry collections ''[insert] Boy'' and ''Don't Call Us Dead: Poems'', both of which have received multiple awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nationalbook.org/people/danez-smith/|title=Danez Smith|website=National Book Foundation|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-17}}</ref> | ||
Smith was born in St. Paul, Minnesota<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/danez-smith|title=Danez Smith|date=2017-09-19|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|others=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2017-09-19 | Smith was born in St. Paul, Minnesota<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/danez-smith|title=Danez Smith|date=2017-09-19|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|others=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2017-09-19}}</ref> and attended Saint Paul Central High School.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/09/14/books-danez-smith|title=St. Paul poet Danez Smith shines in the national spotlight|date=2017-09-14|website=Minnesota Public Radio|language=en-us|access-date=2017-11-28}}</ref> Their family is from Mississippi and Georgia.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://therumpus.net/2016/03/the-conversation-cortney-lamar-charleston-and-danez-smith/|title=The Conversation: Cortney Lamar Charleston and Danez Smith|date=2016-03-26|work=The Rumpus|access-date=2017-09-19|language=en-US}}</ref> Smith was a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/bio-encore/|title=Bio|website=Danez Smith. Poet.|language=en-US|access-date=2018-03-14}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.uwalumni.com/news/danez-smith-a-poet-finding-freedom-through-language/|title=Danez Smith: A Poet Finding Freedom through Language|date=2017-11-30|work=Wisconsin Alumni Association|access-date=2018-09-20|language=en-US}}</ref> Smith is [[gender neutral]] and uses [[they/them]] pronouns.<ref name="Flood">{{cite news |last1=Flood |first1=Alison |title=Danez Smith becomes youngest winner of Forward poetry prize |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/18/danez-smith-forward-poetry-collection-prize-dont-call-us-dead |accessdate=20 September 2018 |work=The Guardian |date=18 September 2018}}</ref><ref name="guardian-every">{{Cite web |title=‘Every poem is political’: Danez Smith, the YouTube star shaking up poetry |work=the Guardian |date=28 January 2018 |access-date=9 October 2020 |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/28/danez-smith-interview-poetry-dont-call-us-dead-dear-white-america}}</ref> | ||
==Works== | ==Works== | ||
*''hands on ya knees'' (2013) | *''hands on ya knees'' (2013) | ||
*''[insert] Boy'' (2014) | *''[insert] Boy'' (2014) | ||
* | *'Don't Call Us Dead'' (2017) | ||
*''Homie'' (2020) | *''Homie'' (2020) | ||
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*[http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/ Website] | *[http://www.danezsmithpoet.com/ Website] | ||
*[https://twitter.com/Danez_Smif Twitter] | *[https://twitter.com/Danez_Smif Twitter] | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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[[Category: Nonbinary people]] | [[Category: Nonbinary people]] | ||
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