S. E. Smith (Columnist)

S. E. Smith is a Northern California-based journalist, essayist, and editor with a social justice focus and beats including labor, disability, gender, death and dying, and animal welfare. smith's cultural criticism and reported features have appeared in publications such as the Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Vice, in addition to anthologies, most recently Disability Intimacy (Vintage, 2024). Smith received a National Magazine Award in 2020 for work in Catapult Magazine. Smith is also a cofounder and worker-owner of The Flytrap, a journalism collective of feminist cultural critics.