SMarie Clay is an MFA candidate at Columbia, Chicago, where she is a Follett scholar and an assistant editor of Court Green. Her work has appeared most recently in Columbia Poetry Review, Caliban, Forklift, Ohio, and H_NGM_N with broadsides available through Thrush Press. SMarie is the founder and editor in chief of Black Tongue Review, a collaborative art and poetry journal, and the curator of Word 6: An Architecture of Multi Modal Poetry, located at The Arcade Gallery in downtown Chicago. She lives with her daughter, Sky in Battle Creek, Michigan.