A frequent Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee, VA Smith’s work has appeared in several anthologies and in dozens of literary journals, among them: Southern Review, Calyx, Crab Creek Review, West Trade Review, Third Wednesday, After Happy Hour Review and SWIMM. Her first two books are Biking Through the Stone Age and American Daughters (Kelsay Books, 2022 and 2023). VA’s third book, Adaptations, will be published by Green Writers Press in September 2025. A Liberal Arts Teaching Excellence awardee at Penn State University as a former Professor of Teaching in the Department of English, VA currently serves as Assistant Poetry Editor of River Heron Review. Her bliss is writing, traveling, cooking, hiking and loving on friends and family. Visit her Instagram and YouTube @vasmithpoetry.