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Austin Smith

Schapville, Illinois

Austin Smith is the author of two collections, Flyover Country (2018) and Almanac (2013), both published by Princeton University Press. He has been awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. He is a Jones Lecturer at Stanford University and lives in Schapville, Illinois.

Poet  Austin Smith photographed by Kai Carlson-Wee
Kai Carlson-Wee

By Austin Smith

Column 769

White Lie

Column 740

Cat Moving Kittens