Patricia Smith is the author of Incendiary Art (Northwestern), winner of the Ruth Lilly Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the Poetry Foundation, the Kingsley Tufts Award, the NAACP Image Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House), winner of the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; and Blood Dazzler (also Coffee House). She is part of the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.