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Tiana Clark serves as the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer-in-Residence at Smith College for the 2025-26 academic year, maintaining active engagement through Fall 2024 office hours. An acclaimed poet and essayist, her work explores Black identity, womanhood, faith, and survival through intersecting lenses of Africana and Women's Studies.
Education:
- M.F.A., Vanderbilt University
- B.A., Tennessee State University (Africana and Women's Studies)
Clark's creative output spans poetry and literary nonfiction, with her collection I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (2018) winning the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize and Equilibrium (2016) securing the Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Current projects include the memoir-in-essays Begging to be Saved (addressing Black burnout and millennial divorce) and poetry collection Proof (exploring relationships and joy). Her work regularly appears in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, and The Atlantic.
Major Honors:
- 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award
- 2019 NEA Literature Fellowship
- 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize
- 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize
- 2019 Pushcart Prize
- 2021-2022 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship
- 2017-2018 Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing Fellowship
Through her Writer-in-Residence role, Clark provides dedicated student mentorship via weekly office hours and workshops. Her significant awards portfolio, including the NEA Fellowship and Amy Lowell Scholarship, reflects sustained excellence in literary arts and supports her ongoing creative development and engagement with the Smith College community.
