Michael F. Smith is a native Mississippian who has spent considerable time living abroad in France and Switzerland. He has been awarded the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction, the Alabama Arts Council Fellowship Award for Literature, and the Brick Streets Press Short Story Award. His short fiction has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous literary reviews and anthologies. His debut novella, The Hands of Strangers, is now available from Main Street Rag Publishing in Charlotte, North Carolina.
His own work is naturally influenced by Southern writers – Larry Brown, Harry Crews, Carson McCullers, Cormac McCarthy, Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor, William Gay, William Faulkner, and so on. He attended Mississippi State University and later the Center for Writers at Southern Miss, and he now lives in Columbus, Mississippi, with his wife and two daughters.
Contact information for the author: michael@michaelfsmith.com
Contact information for agent: Peter Steinberg The Steinberg Agency 47 East 19th St. Third Floor New York, NY 10003 www.steinbergagency.com (212) 213-9120
