Andrew W. Smith, M.S., is a developer, designer, and writer. His work brings immersive and interactive technologies such as games, natural language processing, quantum computing, AR, and VR into conversation with topics such as memory, environmental futures, Black life, and virtual worlds.

Andrew has held residencies and fellowships with Snap Inc., the University of Maryland College Park, and Amherst College. He was part of the inaugural 2024-20245 cohort of Arts for All Faculty Fellows at UMD. Additionally, he currently works with the Immersive Realities Labs for the Humanities, an independent digital workgroup, as well as the African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) initiative at UMD.

His work has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Urgency Reader 2, The New River, salt.codes, Voidspace, and SUPERJUMP. His recent projects include LiteraryDJ, Solidarity Book Project, and Energy.