Clinton "Clint" Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar.

[6] He then pursued doctoral work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society, earning his PhD in 2020 with his dissertation focusing how children sentenced to life without parole experience educational programming while they are incarcerated.

[15] His work is included in the anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016), edited by Jesmyn Ward.

[19] Smith is currently working to present the untold stories of World War II to be published by Random House in a nonfiction book, Just Beneath the Soil.

[20] He currently serves as a staff writer at The Atlantic, where his piece, "Monuments to the Unthinkable" was featured as the cover story in December 2022.