Overview
Rome Smaoui is a Tunisian poet and MFA candidate at Cornell University. Her work has appeared in Narrative Magazine, Burningword Literary Journal, Litbreak Magazine among others. She received her BA in English Literature with Creative Writing from the University of Manchester, where she was awarded the Henry Charles Duffin Prize, the George Gissing Memorial Prize for Fiction and the Alun Lewis Prize for Poetry. She was recognized by the 2025 SmokeLong Quarterly Award for Flash fiction and the 2022 Palette Poetry Emerging Poets Prize. She currently serves as a reader for Frontier Poetry.
Research Focus
- hybrid-poetic forms
- post-humanist thought
- eco-criticism
- human-animal studies
- foxes
- and the color blue.
