MERY SMITH

INDLAND STORY LAB YOUTH PROGRAM MANAGER

SHE/HER

Mery Noel Smith is a devoted mother of five, poet, story holder and recovery advocate. She is currently Spokane’s 6th Poet Laureate. Expanding poetry’s reach into unconventional spaces, Mery has partnered with Eastern Washington’s MFA program WITC as well as many local Spokane non-profits and do-holders! Together, her  poetry workshops have come to those incarcerated, those house-less, residents of memory and assisted living, all over public schools and libraries with a real emphasis on those historically underserved communities. Mery’s first chapbook crumbs was self published in 2021. Her poem “Genesis 2:4..” was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize by Trestle Creek Review. Mery’s poetry as well as her short stories have been published in, The Comet, The Spokesman-Review, The Lilac Local, the Inlander, InRoads and 2025’s debut, Pie and Whiskey. 

Begin where you are with what you have, I promise, it’s enough.

Learn more at www.merynoel.com.