Edgar Smith (poet)


Edgar Smith is a Dominican author and poet born in Villa Consuelo, a neighborhood in the capital city of Santo Domingo. He is the eldest child of Juana I. Fernández and Ramón Smith, a member of the International Taekwon-Do Federation Hall of Fame. He is a poet, writer, editor and translator, who runs his own small publishing company, Books & Smith, in New York City, where he has resided since 2010.

Background

His poems and short stories have been included in anthologies and magazines, such as Antología Poética Solo Para Locos, Multilingual Anthology: The Americas Poetry Festival of New York 2016, Voces de Nuevo Siglo, Voces del café, Trazos, Hybrido, The official Lacuhe Gazette, and Dualis Dualis, among others.
In 2017, he was elected as Director of The International Dominican Book Fair by the cultural organization Hispanic Heritage Cultural Organization.

Books

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