Kevin Smith is a writer living in Iowa City. He received his MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and his PhD in French from Princeton University. An Iowa Arts Fellow, he is recipient of the Provost Postgraduate Visiting Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Iowa, the Steinbeck Fellowship at San José State University, and the Chateaubriand Fellowship. Writing prizes include the Power of Purpose Award and the Arch and Bruce Brown Award. He has held teaching positions at the University of Washington, The George Washington University, Université de Bordeaux III and the University of Iowa. He has published stories, essays and reviews in various places and is also a certified instructor of Tai Chi and Qigong.