Eric Smith

Eric Smith is an award-winning Young Adult author and literary agent living in Philadelphia. He’s worked with New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed authors across genres and categories.

In his author life, his latest book, With or Without You, published with HarperCollins / Inkyard Press in November 2023, and was a Junior Library Guild selection.

His other books include You Can Go Your Own Way (Inkyard Press), Don’t Read the Comments (YALSA 2021 Best Fiction for Young Adults selection), the contemporary fantasy novel The Girl and the Grove (Flux), and the IndieBound bestseller The Geek’s Guide to Dating (Quirk).

A fan of collaborating, he’s also worked on two acclaimed Candlewick anthologies with award-winning author Lauren Gibaldi, Battle of the Bands (a Bank Street Best Book and Read Across America selection) and First-Year Orientation. His collaboration with Alanis Morissette, Academy award-winner Diablo Cody, and Glen Ballard, Jagged Little Pill: The Novel (Abrams) is an adaptation of the Grammy and Tony award winning musical.

He has short stories and essays in the anthologies Color Outside the Lines by Sangu Mandanna (Soho Teen), Body Talk by Kelly Jensen (Algonquin), Allies by Dana Alison Levy and Shakirah Bourne (DK), All Signs Point to Yes by Candice Montgomery, cara davis-araux, and Adrianne Russell (Inkyard), Boundless by Ismée Williams and Rebecca Balcárcel (Inkyard), When We Become Ours by Nicole Chung and Shannon Gibney (Harper), and RELIT by Sandra Proudman (Inkyard).

(Website: www.ericsmithrocks.com)