Bright and Distant Shores

"Washington Square Press fiction original trade"--T.p. verso.

Author: Dominic Smith
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: 09/13/2011
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.10w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781439198865
ISBN10: 1439198861
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney, Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. He holds an MFA in writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including The Atlantic Monthly.

His awards include the Dobie Paisano Fellowship from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, and the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize. In 2006, his debut novel The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre received the Steven Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters.

Dominic serves on the fiction faculty in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers and has taught recently at the University of Texas at Austin and Southern Methodist University. Find out more at www.dominicsmith.net.