Tamsin Smith is a published poet, essayist, and painter.
Her debut verse collection Word Cave was published by Risk Press in January 2018. FMSBW released Between First & Second Sleep (2018), Displacement Geology (2020), and The Profound M: poems paired with found photos (2021), and New Species of Color (2024). Her first work of fiction, XISLE, a novel is now also available from FMSBW.
Her poems appear in the following anthologies:
Love in the Face of Everything
Reverberations: A Visual Conversation
The Community of Writers Poetry Review 2020
Her paintings have been shown in group exhibitions at Modern Eden Gallery, The Luggage Store Gallery, Avenue 12 Gallery, Analog Gallery, Guerrero Gallery, Incline Gallery, King Gallery, Occidental Center for the Arts, and the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and Adobe Books Backroom Gallery, which also exhibited her solo show “Painting as a Second Language” and an exhibition of her collaborations with Emilio Villalba, titled “The Painter’s Alphabet”. Her solo show “TONE POEMS” at DANIELLE SF ran from April 1 to September 30, 2022. Upper Market Gallery hosted a solo show of her work in March 2023. PurpleMaroon in Noe Valley exhibited her solo work in March 2024 and again in March 2025.
For inquiries, please email: TamsinSmith@me.com
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