VA Smith lives in Fairmount, Philadelphia, her adopted city, where she reads and writes, walks and bikes, serves as a home chef/caterer, and loves on her family and friends. VA has published in several dozen literary journals and anthologies, among them Blue Lake Review, Ginosko Literary Journal, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Mobius, Quartet, The Southern Review, Verdad, Third Wednesday and forthcoming in Evening Street Review, and West Trade Review, Her book Biking Through the Stone Age will be published by Kelsay Books in Spring 2022. Currently she’s finishing a collection titled America’s Daughters & Other Poems, enabling her to ignore her Peleton way more than advisable.
