Maya SmithMaya Angela Smith is an American author who writes about language, race, migration, music, and identity. Her first book, Senegal Abroad, won the Modern Language Association's French and Francophone Studies Award. She lives in Seattle where she is an ssociate Professor in the French and Italian Studies department at the University of Washington. She is also a visual artist who has shown her work in Paris, New York, Houston, the Bay Area, and Seattle. Reclaiming Venus is her first memoir. Read More Read Less