Kira Brooke Smith is a writer from central Pennsylvania, currently living and writing in Portland, Oregon.

Her essays and narrative nonfiction works have been featured in The Guardian Online, The Pointed Circle, Plain China Anthology, The Atticus Review, Five Points, and Buckman Journal.

She is an alumnus of Signal Fire Arts and Portland Community College’s Carolyn Moore Writing Residency. Her writing has received funding from the Regional Arts and Cultural Center.

Kira is currently at work on her first essay collection.