Todd Smith’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Meridian, Barrow Street, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review, Palette Poetry, and elsewhere. He received Frontier Poetry’s 2017 Award for New Poets, and was a semi-finalist in the 2018 92Y Discovery Poetry Contest. An actuary by profession, he lives in Des Moines, Iowa.