Toby Smith’s career in journalism began in 1966. As a writer and editor he worked for several newspapers, magazines and a wire service. He has taught writing and reporting courses at the University of New Mexico, Ohio State University, and at universities in South Korea and Romania, the latter where he was a Fulbright Senior Fellow for two years. He has been an IREX Fellow in Yerevan, Armenia, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Harvard, and a James Thurber Writer in Residence at Ohio State. He is currently a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, which takes him to small, independent colleges across the country. Retired from print journalism, he lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he writes books.