Amalie Smith graduated from the Danish Academy of Creative Writing in 2009 and has published five books. Her latest collection, the critically-acclaimed ‘I CIVIL’ (literally, ‘in plain clothes’) (Dansk Gyldendal, 2012), is currently being translated into English and Swedish. Smith works in an interdisciplinary field between text and photography, video and installation and is currently an MFA student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.