Danez Smith

Danez Smith is a Black, queer, nonbinary, HIV-positive writer and performer from Saint Paul, Minnesota. They are the author of the poetry collections [insert] Boy and Don't Call Us Dead: Poems, both of which have received multiple awards.

Smith was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and attended Saint Paul Central High School. Their family is from Mississippi and Georgia. Smith was a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 2012. Smith is gender neutral and uses they/them pronouns.

Works

 * hands on ya knees (2013)
 * [insert] Boy (2014)
 * 'Don't Call Us Dead'' (2017)
 * Homie (2020)

Links

 * Website
 * Twitter