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Austin Smith

Austin Smith is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford. He has had poems published in the New Yorker, Sewanee Review, Yale Review, Pleiades, Poetry East, and others. His first collection of poems, Almanac, was chosen by Paul Muldoon for the Princeton Contemporary Poets Series and will be published by Princeton University Press.

Fiction

Fall 2013

Cicadas

By Austin Smith

When the grandfather clock standing behind her strikes four, Hannah Strawhecker sets aside the quilt she is making for her father-in-law. Four o’clock means it’s time for his milk. The […]

Austin Smith

Austin Smith is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford. He has had poems published in the New Yorker, Sewanee Review, Yale Review, Pleiades, Poetry East, and others. […]