Lytton Smith

Lytton Smith is Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Center for Integrative Learning at SUNY Geneseo in Western Upstate New York. He has translated nine books from the Icelandic, including works by Bragi Ólafsson, Ófeigur Sigurðsson, Sigrún Pálsdóttir, Jón Gnarr, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, and Guðbergur Bergsson, as well as various poems and short stories. He is the author of the poetry collections The All-Purpose Magical Tent (Nightboat, 2009) and While You Were Approaching the Spectacle But Before You Were Transformed by It (Nightboat, 2013) as well as the chapbooks My Radar Data Knows Its Thing (Foundlings, 2018) and Monster Theory (Poetry Society of America, 2008).