Katana Smith

Katana Smith is a poet from Aurora, Colorado. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, AGNI, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the creative writing program at Knox College. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and MA in English from the Litowitz Creative Writing Graduate Program at Northwestern University, where she later served as an Artist-in-Residence. In 2024, she was a finalist for FSG’s Writer’s Fellowship. She is an Associate Editor for RHINO. She lives in Chicago.