# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tracy-k-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:56:53.484Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tracy-k-smith"
name: "Tracy K. Smith"
slug: "tracy-k-smith"
description: "Tracy K. Smith is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd poet laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her 2011 collection Life on Mars. Her memoir, Ordinary Light, was published in 2015."
tagline: "American poet (born 1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tracy_K._Smith_9132454_(2017_)crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1972-04-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.030497333333333
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/tracyksmithpoet/"
    handle:    "tracyksmithpoet"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Tracy K. Smith"
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    title: "تريسي ك. سميث"
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    title: "ট্রেসি কে. স্মিথ"
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    title: "Tracy K. Smith"
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    title: "Tracy K. Smith"
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    title: "Tracy K. Smith"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump