Charlie Smith was born in Georgia and served in the Peace Corps before graduating from Duke University and the University of Iowa. His eight poetry collections include Red Roads, selected for the National Poetry Series and Great Lakes New Poets Award; Word Comix , and Headlong (Norton, 2013). Smith has also published seven novels, among them Cheap Ticket to Heaven, Chimney Rock, and Three Delays (Harper Perennial, 2010), as well as a collection of novellas, Crystal River. Two new novels, Men in Miami Hotels and Ginny Gall, will be published by Harper Perennial.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- The Dictators, a novel excerpt, in Stories of the Week: 2012–2013
- The River, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2009-2010
- Four Poems, poetry, in Winter 2010
- Three Poems, poetry, in Fall 2009
- You Are Welcome Here, a novel excerpt, in Spring 2010