<p class="ql-align-justify"><strong>Jared Smith's</strong> poetry has appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in this country, Canada, Mexico, the U.K., and China. He has served on the Editorial Boards of <em>Home Planet News; The New York Quarterly; The Pedestal Magazine;</em> and <em>Turtle Island Quarterly,</em> as well as on the Boards of literary and arts non-profits in New York, Illinois, and Colorado. He is listed in <em>The Colorado Encyclopedia; Poets ' Writers; Colorado Poets Center; Who's Who in America; </em>and other reference sources. He holds a Master's degree in Literature from New York University, and studied under The Great Books Program at St. John's College. He has taught at New York University and LaGuardia Community College (CCNY,) and worked as Director of Research and Education at an international laboratory, as Special Advisor to Argonne National Laboratory, and as an advisor to several White House Commissions under President William Clinton. He lives in Ellicott City, Maryland.</p><p><br></p>