S. "Smith" Yarberry is a trans poet, writer, and William Blake scholar. Their poetry has appeared in AGNI, Guernica, Tin House, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, jubilat, The Boiler, among others. ​Their critical writing can be found, or forthcoming in, Studies in Romanticism, European Romantic Review, The Brooklyn Rail, and Annulet: A Journal of Poetics. Smith is the founder and editor of the little magazine Tyger Quarterly and ​had served in a variety of roles, including Poetry Editor, of The Spectacle from 2017 to 2023. S. has their MFA in Poetry from Washington University in St. Louis and is now a PhD candidate in literature at Northwestern University where they study William Blake. Their first full-length book of poems, A Boy in the City, is out now from Deep Vellum.