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Author Jamie Lyn Smith in conversation with Lee Martin

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Author Jamie Lyn Smith will discuss her book, Township, with Lee Martin. Set in Appalachian Ohio, Smith's short stories explore a region and the rotating cast of characters who call it home.

Author Jamie Lyn Smith will discuss her book, Township, with Lee Martin. 

Set in Appalachian Ohio, Jamie Lyn Smith’s debut short story collection explores a region and the rotating cast of characters who call it home. With honesty and empathy, Smith closely examines the strains that intimate family ties put on lives worn raw by collective history. Ultimately, the nine stories in Township interrogate the notion of reconciliation, examining whether people can truly change and if forgiveness is possible. 

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Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher. She earned her BA in English and Theatre from Kenyon College, her Masters in Education from Fordham University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State. Jamie Lyn is the Fiction Editor at BreakBread Magazine and a Consulting Editor for the Kenyon Review. Her work has appeared in The Pinch, The Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Yemassee, Bayou, and other fine literary magazines. She is currently working on Hometown, a novel about millennial crises and the rise of white nationalism in the rural Midwest, for which she received a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. 

Lee Martin is the Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of The Bright Forever, and five other novels: Quakertown, River of Heaven, Break the Skin,  Late One Night, and Yours, Jean. His other books are the memoirs, Gone the Hard Road, Such a Life, From Our House, and Turning Bones; and the short story collections, The Least You Need to Know and The Mutual UFO Network. He’s also the author of a craft book, Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as Harper’s, Ms., The Best American Essays, The Best American Mystery Stories, Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, River Teeth, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and Glimmer Train. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where he was the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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