Suzi Q. Smith

Suzi Q. Smith is an award-winning artist, organizer, and educator who lives in Denver, Colorado. She has created, curated, coached, and taught in Denver for over 20 years, managing the largest poetry festivals that Denver has seen to date. A TEDx speaker multiple times, Suzi has performed throughout the United States for over a decade, and has shared stages with Nikki Giovanni, the late Gil Scott Heron, and many more. The author of poetry collections Poems for the End of the World, A Gospel of Bones, and Thirteen Descansos, Suzi is also a singer-songwriter, playwright, and multi-disciplinary creative. Currently, she is a mentor in the Poetry Collective, the Portfolio Year, and teaches regularly in Lighthouse Writers Workshop's year round programming. She's also served as [margins] conference director for The Word, as faculty at Regis's Mile High MFA, as is currently chair of the Denver County Cultural Council.