Dean Smith’s poems have appeared in Poetry East, Open City, The Pearl, The Virginia Literary Review, The Charlotte Review, and Gulf Stream, among others. His first book, American Boy won the 2000 Washington Writers’ Prize and was also awarded the Maryland Prize for Literature in 2001 for the best book published by a Maryland writer over the past three years. His writing has appeared in the Baltimore City Paper, the Baltimore Sun, The Chelsea Clinton News and the Washington Post, among others. He received his MFA in 1989 from Columbia University.
Dean Smith is currently the Director of Duke University Press. Previously he was the Director of Cornell University Press, where he oversaw a program that published 150 new books a year and featured 3,000 titles in print. His career in publishing spans 29 years and includes experience in scholarly, STM, trade and association-based publishing.
His career has evolved with the profession in a variety of roles such as journal publisher, director of electronic publishing, vice president of sales and marketing, society publisher and press director. Dean Smith brings a wealth of experience in leading digital publishing initiatives, global sales and marketing expertise, and strategic planning skills. He conceived and launched the University Press Content Consortia on Project MUSE–a multi-publisher e-book initiative which features 35,000 eBooks to sit alongside 600 scholarly journals on the leading digital platform in the humanities and social sciences.
