Author Jamie Lyn Smith will discuss her bo ok\, Township\, with Lee Martin. \;
\nSet in Appalachia n Ohio\, Jamie Lyn Smith&rsquo\;s debut short story collection explores a region and the rotating cast of characters who call it home. With honesty and empathy\, Smith closely examines the strains that intimate family ties put on lives worn raw by collective history. Ultimately\, the nine storie s in Township interrogate the notion of reconciliation\, examining whether people can truly change and if forgiveness is possible. \;
\nIn person space is limited. Registration is requested. \;Online registration is required to receive the zoom link. \;
\nJamie L yn Smith is a writer\, editor\, and teacher. She earned her BA in English and Theatre from Kenyon College\, her Masters in Education from Fordham Un iversity\, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State. Jamie Lyn is t he Fiction Editor at BreakBread Magazine and a Consulting Editor for the K enyon Review. Her work has appeared in The Pinch\, The Mississippi Review\ , The Kenyon Review\, American Literary Review\, Yemassee\, Bayou\, and ot her fine literary magazines. She is currently working on Hometown\, a nove l about millennial crises and the rise of white nationalism in the rural M idwest\, for which she received a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excell ence Award. \;
\nLee Martin is the Pulitzer Prize Finalist autho r of \;The Bright Forever\, and five other novels: \;Quakertown\, River of Heaven\, Break the Skin\, \; \;Late One Night\, and \ ;Yours\, Jean. His other books are \;the memoirs\, \;Gone the Hard Road\, \;Such a Life\, \;From Our House\, and \;Turning Bones \; and the short story collections\, \;The Least You Need to Know \;and \;The Mutual UFO Network. He&rsquo\;s also the author of a craft book\, \;Telling Stories: The Craft of Narrative and the Writing Life . \;His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in such places as \;H arper&rsquo\;s\, Ms.\, The Best American Essays\, The Best American Myster y Stories\, Creative Nonfiction\, The Georgia Review\, The Kenyon Review\, Fourth Genre\, River Teeth\, The Southern Review\, Prairie Schooner\, and \;Glimmer Train. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State Univers ity\, where he was the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished T eaching.
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