Extended Bio
for questions & queries
email Smith at ssyarberry at gmail dot com
email Smith at ssyarberry at gmail dot com
S. Yarberry is a trans poet and writer.
Their poems have appeared in, or are forthcoming in, Redivider, Pinwheel, The Afternoon Visitor, pulpmouth, Tin House, Indiana Review, The Offing, Berkeley Poetry Review, The Washington Post’s The Lily Magazine, Nat Brut, jubilat, Burnside Review, DREGINALD, The Notre Dame Review, Cape Cod Poetry Review, The Boiler, Ghost City Press, Sixth Finch, Touchstone Magazine, FIVE:2:ONE‘s #thesideshow, and miscellaneous zines.
Their articles and interviews have appeared in BOMB magazine, The Adroit Journal, and Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. Smith’s fiction, an excerpt from their novella in-progress The Balloon Factroy, can be read at 17th Street Review.
Smith’s first book of poems, A Boy in the City, is forthcoming from Deep Vellum. Details to come!
Their work is also anthologized in Queer Voices: Prose, Poetry, and Pride, from Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2019.
They graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 2016 and recently received their MFA in Poetry at Washington University in St. Louis, where they held the Junior Teaching Fellowship in Poetry (2019-2020). They are now a PhD candidate at Northwestern University where they are a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Poetry & Poetics.
S. is currently the Poetry Editor of The Spectacle and the Poetry Coordinator at the MFA App Review. For questions regarding the MFA App Review, or to get involved, please email them at mfaappreview at gmail dot com.
They have also taught at The Fir Acres Creative Writing Workshop at Lewis & Clark College and The Loft Literary Center.
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth
Past Readings
Boneshaker Books: Queer Voices Author Event, Minneapolis, 2019
Milkweed Books: S. Yarberry & S. Brook Corfman, Minneapolis, 2019
FOAM: S. Yarberry, Red Samaniego, & Matthew Klane, St. Louis, 2019
Berkeley Poetry Review Launch at Moe’s Books:
Sophia Dahlin, Angel Dominguez & S. Yarberry, 2019Selected Performer, Crossing the Borders of Creation and Critique Conference, Washington University in St. Louis, 2019
Selected Performer, &Now: New Writing Conference, 2018
Invited Reader, Juicy Fruit Queer Gallery Show & Reading, St. Louis, MO, 2018
Invited Reader & Speaker, “The Body” Reading & Panel Discussion, Washington University School of Medicine, 2018
Invited Reader, Washington University in St. Louis LGBTQ+ Reading Series, 2017 & 2018
Invited Reader, The Loop Arts Festival, St. Louis, 2018
Invited Reader, Intermedia Arts Queer Reading Series, 2017
Invited Reader, 555 Reading, Minneapolis, 2017
Invited Reader, Twin Cities Poetry Festival, 2017
