Dale Smith (poet)

Dale Smith (born 1967) is an American poet, editor, and critic.

Smith was born and raised in Texas and studied poetry at New College of California in San Francisco.

[1] Having completed his PhD at the University of Texas[2] in Austin, he and his wife, the poet Hoa Nguyen, now live in Toronto Ontario, Canada, where he is an assistant professor of English at Toronto Metropolitan University.

While in San Francisco, Smith was co-editor of Mike & Dale's Younger Poets.

[3] After moving to Austin in 1998, he and Hoa Nguyen started the small press publishing venture Skanky Possum.