Emily Louise Smith is the co-founder and publisher of Lookout Books and its sister magazine, Ecotone. Under her leadership, Lookout titles have won or been named finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the National Book Award, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, among others. An associate professor in UNC Wilmington’s MFA and BFA programs, Smith directs the creative writing department’s Publishing Laboratory and coordinates its publishing certificate tracks. Her honors include an Innovation in Teaching Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, and an Arts Council of Wilmington Artist Grant to support work on her researched memoir, Mother Tree. Her writing appears in Best New Poets, Boulevard, the Southern Review, and Literary Publishing in the Twenty-First Century (Milkweed), among other places.
