Lytton Smith is the author of WHILE YOU WERE APPROACHING THE SPECTABLE BUT BEFORE YOU WERE TRANSFORMED BY IT (Nightboat Books, 2013) and THE ALL-PURPOSE MAGICAL TENT (Nightboat Books, 2009), which won the Nightboat Poetry Books Poetry Prize. He's also the translator of several books from the Icelandic. The novel Öræfi—The Wastelands, from the Icelandic of Ófeigur Sigurðsson, was published by Deep Vellum in 2018. He is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at SUNY Geneseo.