Dean Smith’s poems have appeared in Poetry East, Open City, The Pearl, The Virginia Literary Review, The Charlotte Review, and Gulf Stream, among others. His first book, American Boy won the 2000 Washington Writer’s Prize and was also awarded the Maryland Prize for Literature in 2001 for the best book published by a Maryland writer over the past three years. His writing has appeared in the Baltimore City Paper, the Baltimore Sun, The Chelsea Clinton News and the Washington Post, among others. He received his MFA in 1989 from Columbia University.
His work appeared in Midnight Mind Number Five.