Larry Smith is a native of the industrial Ohio River Valley. He taught for three decades at Firelands College of Bowling Green State University in Huron, Ohio, where he directs Bottom Dog Press Inc and The Firelands Writing Center. In 2005 he co-edited with wife Ann, the Harmony Series anthology Family Matters: Poems of Our Families, and in 2004 he and poet Ray McNiece edited America Zen: A Gathering of Poets (both from Bottom Dog Press). His eighth book of poems is A River Remains (WordTech Editions 2006) following his memoirs: Milldust and Roses (Ridgeway Press, 2001). This is his third book of fiction. His writing has been read on Reader's Almanac of public radio, and he has received an NEH, a Fulbright, and an Ohio Individual Artist award.
