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Colby Cedar Smith

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Poetry, Historical Fiction, Young Adult

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Colby Cedar Smith is an award-winning poet, novelist, and educator, and the author of two verse novels THE SIREN AND THE STAR (Simon & Schuster, forthcoming Fall 2025) and CALL ME ATHENA (Andrews McMeel, 2021). Her work has been chosen as a Junior Library Guild Gold Selection, an American Booksellers Association Indie Next Pick, a Cybils Award Poetry Finalist, a Goodreads Choice Best Poetry Nominee, A Kid's Book Choice Nominee, Independent Publisher Book Award, a Nautilus Award, a Michigan Notable Book, The Midwest Book Award for YA Fiction, and a New Jersey Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. To learn more visit colbycedarsmith.com or find her on Instagram @colby_cedar_smith.
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“Call me Athena

I live on Mount Olympus

and you
are only a mortal"
-Mary”
― Colby Cedar Smith, Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

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“I close my eyes

and feel the rhythm
of the music
enter my heart.

Hope."
-Mary”
― Colby Cedar Smith, Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

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“It is at this moment

that I decide.

I am not
a Good.Greek.Girl.

I am
a Modern.American.Woman"
-Mary”
― Colby Cedar Smith, Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

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“I close my eyes

and feel the rhythm
of the music
enter my heart.

Hope."
-Mary”
― Colby Cedar Smith, Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

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“It is at this moment

that I decide.

I am not
a Good.Greek.Girl.

I am
a Modern.American.Woman"
-Mary”
― Colby Cedar Smith, Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

1 likes

“What will I do
with this freedom of mine?

Anything I want"
-Mary”
― Colby Cedar Smith, Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

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“Call me Athena

I live on Mount Olympus

and you
are only a mortal"
-Mary”
― Colby Cedar Smith, Call Me Athena: Girl from Detroit

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