Mistinguette Smith writes across the boundaries between race and culture, urban and rural, academic and vernacular.

Smith’s essays have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today, and The NonProfit Quarterly.

Her poetry has been published in Beloit Poetry Journal,Pluck! A Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture and the LGBTQ anthologies Does Your Mama Know and Other Countries: Voices Rising. Her fiction can be found in literary journals such as Abandon Journal, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives and Meat For Tea.

Her creative non-fiction about race, land and place have been published in Emergence Magazine, The Common online, Belt and Yes! magazines, as well as the anthologies Wildness: Relations of People and Place and The Colors of Nature: A Teaching Guide.

Her play “Freedom in the Air” enjoyed sold-out performances at the Academy of Music in Northampton, MA.

As co-author, her work appears in peer-reviewed articles in Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, Activist History Review and American Quarterly.

She is the founder of The Black/Land Project and the owner of M Smith Consulting LLC. A long time resident of western Massachusetts, she is a member of Straw Dog Writers Guild. She currently lives in Oberlin, Ohio where she is hard at work on a collection of linked short stories.