Jeric Smith

Jeric Smith iis a Chamoru-Filipino, queer poet and pastry chef living in Sx’wálech, the traditional homeland of the Northern Straits Coast Salish Peoples. His family is from Dededo and Chalan Pago, Guåhan. His poems have appeared in Assaracus: A Journal of Gay Poetry, Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia (University of Hawai‘i Press), Moss, Poetry Northwest, and Cordite Poetry Review, among other publications. He has performed and read original work at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, the Center on Contemporary Arts, and at various festivals and conferences. He received an MFA in Creative Writing from the Rainier Writing Workshop.