Positions

Overview

  • Founder and publisher of the award-winning literary imprint Lookout Books, Emily Smith teaches publishing arts at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she directs The Publishing Laboratory and serves as publisher for the magazine Ecotone. She was recently named Wilmington’s Woman of Achievement in the Arts, as well as UNCW’s Lecturer of the Year. Her poems have appeared in Southern Review and Best New Poets, among others, and she has received fellowships from Hambidge, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fund, the Studios of Key West, and the Hub City Writers Project.

    • Selected Publications

    Academic Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2016-01-01 The Next Generation of Editors and Publishers.  Boulevard magazine.  2016-01-01
    2013-12-01 A Conversation with Photographer Andreas Franke.  Ecotone.  9:1. 2013-12-01

    Article

    Year Title Altmetric
    2018-01-01 What Becoming a Mother Has Taught Me about Home.  House Method, Three Ships.  2018-01-01
    2015-01-01 About the Cover.  Ecotone .  2015-01-01

    Book

    Year Title Altmetric
    2022-01-01 Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic.  Lookout Books. 2022-01-01
    2016-01-01 Overnight Success of Lookout Books.  Literary Publishing in the 21st Century. 2016-01-01
    2015-01-01 The Paradox of Stillness.  Salt. 2015-01-01

    Chapter

    Year Title Altmetric
    2020-01-01 The Wilmington Connection -- The Hub City Writers’ Project: The First Twenty-Five Years.  Hub City Press. 103. 2020-01-01
    2016-01-01 The Overnight Success of Lookout Books -- Literary Publishing in the 21st Century.  Milkweed Editions. 225-238. 2016-01-01
    2015-01-01 The Junction.  Electric Literature. 2015-01-01
    2015-01-01 Winter Beach Run.  27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Poetry and Prose. 31–38. 2015-01-01

    Document

    Year Title Altmetric
    2022-01-01 Bigger Than Bravery: Black Resilience and Reclamation in a Time of Pandemic.  Lookout Books . 2022-01-01
    2020-01-01 Original cover images. My Only Sunshine, The Patron Saint of Dreams, Through the Pale Door, and In the Garden of Stone.  The Hub City Writers’ Project: The First Twenty-Five Years. 71. 2020-01-01
    2019-01-01 This Is My Body: A Memoir of Religious and Romantic Obsession by Cameron Dezen Hammon.  Lookout Books. 2019-01-01
    2018-01-01 Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries of Place, Identity, and Feminism, foreword by May-lee Chai.  Lookout Books. 2018-01-01
    2017-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2017-01-01
    2017-01-01 Ecotone magazine Craft.  Ecotone magazine. 2017-01-01
    2016-12-01 Imaginary Children -- Belle Boggs’s.  Catapult. 2016-12-01
    2016-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2016-01-01
    2016-01-01 Ecotone magazine Country and City.  Ecotone magazine. 2016-01-01
    2016-01-01 Interview with artist Andrew Blanchard.  Ecotone. 124. 2016-01-01
    2016-01-01 We Show What We Have Learned & Other Stories by Clare Beams.  Lookout Books. 2016-01-01
    2015-01-01 Ecotone magazine Sound.  Ecotone magazine. 2015-01-01
    2015-01-01 Honey from the Lion by Matthew Neill Null.  Lookout Books. 2015-01-01
    2015-01-01 Interview with writer Jeff Sharlet.  Ecotone. 112–114. 2015-01-01
    2015-01-01 Tenth anniversary Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2015-01-01
    2014-01-01 American Photograph,” “One Day My Grief Up and Quit,” and “Fields, Drifting Apart”.  The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VII: North Carolina . 222–224. 2014-01-01
    2014-01-01 Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone’s First Decade.  Lookout Books. 2014-01-01
    2014-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2014-01-01
    2014-01-01 Ecotone magazine Sustenance.  Ecotone magazine. 2014-01-01
    2014-01-01 Interview with artist Kirsten Sims.  Ecotone. 2014-01-01
    2014-01-01 The Whiskey Baron by Jon Sealy.  Hub City Press. 2014-01-01
    2013-05-01 A Conversation with Paula Rebsom.  Ecotone. 88-101. 2013-05-01
    2013-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2013-01-01
    2013-01-01 Ecotone magazine Migration.  Ecotone magazine. 2013-01-01
    2013-01-01 In the Garden of Stone by Susan Tekulve.  Hub City Press. 2013-01-01
    2013-01-01 River Bend Chronicle: The Junkification of a Boyhood Idyll amid the Curious Glory of Urban Iowa by Ben Miller.  Lookout Books. 2013-01-01
    2012-04-01 A Conversation with Harry Taylor.  Ecotone. 98. 2012-04-01
    2012-01-01 Ecotone magazine Abnormal.  Ecotone magazine. 2012-01-01
    2012-01-01 Ecotone magazine Remembrance.  Ecotone magazine. 2012-01-01
    2012-01-01 The Patron Saint of Dreams by Philip Gerard.  Hub City Press. 2012-01-01
    2012-01-01 When All the World Is Old: Poems by John Rybicki.  Lookout Books. 2012-01-01
    2011-09-01 A Conversation with Harry Underwood.  Ecotone. 106. 2011-09-01
    2011-07-01 three poems in New South.  New South / Georgia State University. 2011-07-01
    2011-04-01 "American Photograph" and "All Right".  The Southern Review. 4 pages. 2011-04-01
    2011-04-01 five poems in Apartment D: Five Years of Writers.  Hub City Writers Project. 2011-04-01
    2011-01-01 Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman.  Lookout Books. 2011-01-01
    2011-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2011-01-01
    2011-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2011-01-01
    2011-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2011-01-01
    2011-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2011-01-01
    2011-01-01 Ecotone magazine Happiness.  Ecotone magazine. 2011-01-01
    2011-01-01 God Bless America: Stories by Steve Almond.  Lookout Books. 2011-01-01
    2011-01-01 Waking: Poems by Ron Rash.  Hub City Press. 2011-01-01
    2010-11-01 After Reading about How to Attract Martins to Gourd Houses.  Best New Poets, published by the University of Virginia / Meridian. 1. 2010-11-01
    2010-01-01 Checking Out: Poems by Tim Peeler.  Hub City Press. 2010-01-01
    2010-01-01 Ecotone magazine Sex & Death.  Ecotone magazine. 2010-01-01
    2010-01-01 Fifth Anniversary Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2010-01-01
    2010-01-01 My Only Sunshine by Lou Dischler.  Hub City Press. 2010-01-01
    2009-08-01 four poems in Show & Tell: Writers on Writing.  The Publishing Laboratory. 5. 2009-08-01
    2009-06-01 Remnants in Beloved on the Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude.  Holy Cow Press. 2. 2009-06-01
    2009-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2009-01-01
    2009-01-01 Ecotone magazine Evolution.  Ecotone magazine. 2009-01-01
    2009-01-01 Expecting Goodness.  Hub City Press. 2009-01-01
    2009-01-01 Through the Pale Door by Brian Ray.  Hub City Press. 2009-01-01
    2008-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2008-01-01
    2008-01-01 Still Home: The Essential Poetry of Spartanburg.  Hub City Press. 2008-01-01
    2007-11-01 Spartanburg Revisited: A Second Look at the Photographs of Alfred and Bob Willis.  Hub City Writers Project. 21. 2007-11-01
    2007-03-01 Small Hours in Front Porch Journal.  Texas State University-San Marcos. 1. 2007-03-01
    2007-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2007-01-01
    2006-01-01 Driving Home from a Funeral.  Spartanburg Journal. 31. 2006-01-01
    2006-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2006-01-01
    2006-01-01 Interview with the Past.  Kakalak 2006: An Anthology of Carolina Poets. 62. 2006-01-01
    2006-01-01 Like Sunlight Unraveling.  Columbia Poetry Review. 106. 2006-01-01
    2006-01-01 Seven Tears for Joseph Cornell in Tar River Poetry.  East Carolina University. 30-31. 2006-01-01
    2006-01-01 To the Chimney Swifts.  Spartanburg Journal. 31. 2006-01-01
    2005-01-01 Close of Season.  Smartish Pace. 100. 2005-01-01
    2005-01-01 Ecotone magazine.  Ecotone magazine. 2005-01-01
    2005-01-01 Why She Was So Sweet.  The Journal. 71-73. 2005-01-01

    Presentations

    Principal Investigator On

  • Arts & Audiences Grant 2012-09-01 - 2013-06-01
  • Arts & Audiences Grant 2011-08-01 - 2012-05-01

    • Investigator On

  • Literary Arts Emergency Grant to support ongoing research and publication of Lookout Books 2022-01-01 - 2023-01-01
  • South Arts grant to support the launch of Bigger Than Bravery 2022-01-01 - 2023-01-01
  • South Arts grant to support Writers’ Week, Department of Creative Writing 2020-01-01 - 2021-01-01
  • Academic Affairs’ Faculty Development and Course Preparation Grant to support summer research toward CRW 540 2020-01-01
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organizational grant to support the work of Ecotone and Lookout Books’ publication of Trespass 2018-01-01
  • South Arts grant to support the launch of Trespass 2018-01-01
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organizational grant to support the work of Ecotone and Lookout Books 2017-01-01
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organizational grant to support the work of Ecotone and Lookout Books 2016-01-01
  • South Arts grant to support writing workshops and educational tour by Clare Beams to launch We Show What We Have Learned 2016-01-01
  • South Arts grant to support writing workshops and educational tour by Matthew Neill Null to launch Honey From the Lion 2015-01-01
  • National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) organizational grant to support the ongoing work of Ecotone and Lookout Books’ publication of Astoria to Zion: Twenty-Six Stories of Risk and Abandon from Ecotone’s First Decade 2013-01-01
  • North Carolina Arts Council presentation grant to support workshops and educational tours 2012-01-01 - 2013-01-01
  • North Carolina Arts Council presentation grant to support writing workshops and educational tours by two authors 2011-01-01 - 2012-01-01

    • Teaching Overview

  • publishing arts, book design, history of the small press, editing, poetry, entrepreneurship in the arts

    • Full Name

  • Emily Louise Smith