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About R. T. Smith
R. T. Smith’s work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, the Pushcart Prize Anthology and New Stories from the South. His most recent collection of poetry, Outlaw Style (Arkansas, 2007), received the Library of Virginia Poetry Prize. His third collection of stories, The Calaboose Epistles, is forthcoming from Iris Press in 2009, and he is working on a book-length series of poems about Flannery O’Connor entitled The Red Wolf. Smith edits Shenandoah and teaches writing and literature at Washington and Lee University.
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