Ron Smith (born 1949) is an American poet and the first writer-in-residence at St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia.
In 2005, he was selected, along with Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, as an inaugural winner of the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, "which is awarded each year to a poet with strong connections to the Commonwealth of Virginia.
[2] Smith is a former president of the Poetry Society of Virginia, and is a trustee for the Edgar Allan Poe Museum.
[3] Born in Savannah, Georgia, Smith moved to Richmond, Virginia, to play college football.
[2] Ron Smith was the Writer in Residence[4] at St. Christopher's School[5] His 18-poem sequence "To Ithaca" appeared in the Summer 2002 issue of The Georgia Review.