ETHEL MORGAN SMITH is the author of three books

 

• Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement (August 2023);

• Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany, a finalist for Indie Award (2017);

• From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College (2016);

• From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College (2000).

 

Her work has appeared in following: 

• The New York Times,

• Green Mountain Review,

• Callaloo,

• STIR Journal,

• African American Review,

• The University Florida Journal,

• Tusculum Review,

• De Standaard-Brussel, Belgium

• Midnight & Indigo

• Mr. Wrong

• Honey Hush! African American Women’s Humor

• Spittoon 3.23

• Burying Gems

• Mad Hearts

• Shaping Memories

• From My People: 400 Years of African American Folklore

• All of the Women in My Family Sing

• An Anthology of Grandmothers

• The Potomac Review

• Kestrel

• Re-Visioning the Past-Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier-Germany

 

Smith adapted her first book—From Whence Cometh My Help into a stage play—African Violets.

She is a Fulbright fellow, a Rockefeller fellow, two National Endowment for the Humanities grants, Visiting Artist-American Academy Rome, Virginia Center for Creative Artists, Bread Loaf, Brandeis University’s Center for Women’s Studies, Idyllwild School of Music and Arts, and PLAYA.

Smith is a Professor Emeritus at West Virginia University. She has also taught creative writing and African American at Carlow University, Monash University (Australia), Randolph College, University of Canterbury (New Zealand) Virginia Tech, Universität Tübingen (Germany).