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ABOUT THE AUTHOR R. T. SMITH is the author of several books of poems, including Messenger, Brightwood, and The Hollow Log Lounge. His collections of shortstoriesareFaithandUkeRiversDelivers,andheedited(along with his wife, Sarah Kennedy) Common Wealth: Contemporary Virginia Poets. Smith has received fellowships in poetry and fiction from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Alabama State Council for the Arts and the NEA.His work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Southern Review, Georgia Review, The Sewanee Review, and other journals. A former Alumni Writer-in-Residence at Auburn University, he has been since 1995 the editor of Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee University Review and currently lives in Rockbridge County,Virginia. His website is rtsmith.org. 1SMITH_pages.qxd 8/13/07 10:44 AM Page 110 ...

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