A recipient of an NEA fellowship in poetry and the Edgar Allan Poe Award in fiction, D. James Smith’s poems and stories have appeared recently in The Malahat Review, New Millennium Writings & The Notre Dame Review. His books include the novel My Brother’s Passion (Permanent Press, 2004) and two collections of poems, The Dead Ventriloquist (Ahsahta Press, 1995) and Sounds The Living Make (S. F. Austin State Univ., 2012). He has also published four novels for teens: Fast Company, The Boys of San Joaquin, Probably The World's Best Story About a Dog and the Girl Who Loved Me, and It Was September When We Ran Away.(DK, 1999; Atheneum, 2005, 2006, 2008).
