Editorial Board – Smith Writes

Managing Editor:

Sara Eddy, Phd., Managing Editor of Smith Writes

Sara Eddy is the Assistant Director of the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching, and Learning at Smith College. She trains and supervises the Peer Writing Tutors that work in the center, and works as a writing counselor. As a poet, her work has appeared recently in Heartwood, The Baltimore Review, and The Threepenny Review. She has published two chapbooks: Tell the Bees (A3 Press, 2019) and Full Mouth (Finishing Line Press, 2020). Her full-length collection of poems, Ordinary Fissures, was released by Kelsay Books in spring 2024.

2024-2025 Editorial Assistants:

Astrid Chen ’26

Certitude Lembion ’26J

Chuck Bayliss ’25ADA

Margot Audero ’26

Corin Ford ’26

Jade Mosley ’25

Jordan Conlon ’25

Karen Colman Martinez ’26

Kinjal Potdar ’26

Kokwe Dadzie ’26

Laura Fay ’25

Lilia Wong ’25

Mars Sell ’26

Maya Martinez ’26

Naomi Scully-Bristol ’25

Yena Perice ’26J

Yewon Park ’25

Website Design:

Travis Grandy, Instructional Technologist and Design Consultant, Smith College

Travis is a member of Learning, Research & Technology at Smith College. As an instructional technologist, he is committed to empowering students and faculty to learn and adapt new technologies for engaging learning experiences and scholarship. Travis has a strong background in writing studies and does research on public discourse, writing across the disciplines, and digital media.

Website Support:

Jonathan Ruseski, Writing Instructor and Lecturer, Smith College

Jonathan Ruseski is a writing instructor for the Jacobson Center for Writing, Teaching, and Learning at Smith College. Passionate about both writing and publishing, he is the founder and editor of b l u s h, an online poetry journal and publishing imprint, and a deputy editor for Factory Hollow Press. His writing appears in BOMB, Fence, and jubilat, among others.