Rod T. Smith

Writer-in-Residence | Editor, Shenandoah

Fall term office hours: by appt.

Education

M.A. in English, Appalachian State University, 1976
B.A. in Philosophy, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, 1970

Teaching

Shenandoah Internship

Seminars

Poe
Frost
Flannery O'Connor
The Civil War in American Literature
Literature of Virginia
Appalachian Literature
Fiction Writing

Recent Books

The Red Wolf: A Dream of Flannery O'Connor. Louisiana Literature Press, 2013

Sherburne: Stories. Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2011.

The Calaboose Epistles: Stories. Iris Press, 2009

Outlaw Style: Poems. University of Arkansas Press, 2008

Uke Rivers Delivers: Stories. LSU Press, 2006

Ensemble. Talking River Press, 2006

Brightwood: Poems. LSU Press, 2003

Common Wealth: Contemporary Virginia Poets.  UVA Press, 2003 (edited with Sarah Kennedy)

The Hollow Log Lounge: Poems. U of Illinois Press, 2003

Messenger: Poems. LSU Press, 2001

Split the Lark: Selected Poems. Salmon Press of Ireland, 1999

Trespasser: Poems. LSU Press, 1996

Hunter-Gatherer: Poems. Livingston U Press, 1996

Faith: Stories. Black Belt Press, 1995

Selected Poems in Journals

Appalachian Heritage, Asheville Poetry Review, Missouri Review, National Poetry Review, Plume, Prairie Schooner, Southern Humanities Review, Southern Poetry Review

Recent Awards

2008 Library of Virginia Book of the Year; 2007 Cohen Prize from Ploughshares; 2007 Guy Owen Prize from Southern Poetry Review; 2003 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fiction Fellowship; 2003 Pushcart Prize; 2002 Library of Virginia Poetry Book of the Year; 2001 Theodore Hoepffner Award from Southern Humanities Review; 2000 Richard Hugo Award from Poetry Northwest; 1999 Virginia Commission for the Arts Poetry Fellowship; 1999 Internation Poetry Award from Salmon Publishing in Ireland

Interests

Outsider art, bluegrass music, Appalachian culture, Southern literature, Irish literature and traditional music, the Civil War

Current Projects

Sherburne: Stories