Charlie Smith

WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:

You Are Welcome Here, a novel excerpt, in Spring 2010
Three Poems, poetry, in Fall 2009
Four Poems, poetry, in Winter 2010
The River, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2009-2010

Charlie Smith was born in Georgia and served in the Peace Corps before graduating from Duke University and the University of Iowa. His seven poetry collections include Red Roads, selected for the National Poetry Series and Great Lakes New Poets Award; Heroin and Other Poems; and Word Comix . Smith has also written seven novels, among them Cheap Ticket to Heaven, Chimney Rock, and Three Delays (Harper Perennial, 2010), as well as a collection of novellas, Crystal River.