Suzi Q. Smith

Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning poet and author who lives in Denver, Colorado.

The author of poetry collections Poems for the End of the World, A Gospel of Bones (winner of the 2019 Electric Press Award), and the chapbook collection, Thirteen Descansos, Smith is also the co-editor of two anthologies, Tell It Slant: An Anthology of Creative Nonfiction by Writers from Colorado’s Prisons and All the Lives We Ever Lived, Volume I, both Finalists for the Colorado Book Award. While primarily known for her poetry, Suzi is also an organizer, an educator, a singer-songwriter, playwright, and interdisciplinary creative. She has created, curated, coached, organized, and taught for over 25 years, touring throughout the United States. Smith is also a Pushcart-nominated essayist with an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College. Recipient of the 2023 Beacon Award for Excellence in Teaching, she is currently a Faculty member with Lighthouse Writers Workshop and Regis University’s Mile High MFA, and the Writing Director with Chateau d’Orquevaux in France, where she was a resident artist in 2023. As an organizer, Smith is the recipient of the 2024 Social Impact Artist Award from Bonfils-Stanton Foundation and Denver Arts & Venues, as well as the 2018 Denver Foundation Swanee Hunt Leadership Award, and she has worked with arts and cultural organizations for over 25 years, in Denver and around the U.S.