Darryl Houston Smith is an American poet and member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA). Writing from Lowell, MA, his work fuses dark romanticism with hyper-metric precision to explore the unflinching dualities of the human condition. He is the author of Resilience and The Fraud of Eternity (Dyad House). Influenced by Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, and Jim Morrison, Houston Smith constructs strict poetic cages for the wildest of emotions. Hell is solid.