Evan Lavender-Smith

Evan Lavender-Smith is a novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, translator, and editor. He is the author of a hybrid-genre work, From Old Notebooks (Dzanc Books, 2013; BlazeVOX, 2010), which was a Small Press Distribution Bestseller, a NewPages Noteworthy Book, a Huffington Post Readers' Favorite Book From Independent Publishers, a finalist for the Fence Modern Poets Prize, and listed as a best book of the year by HTMLGiant, 32 Poems, Biblioklept, and others. He is also the author of novella, Avatar (Six Gallery Press, 2011). His writing has been published by The Southern Review, New England Review, New York Tyrant, The Rumpus, Hobart, Glimmer Train, Fence, Harvard Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fanzine, The White Review, and many other journals, magazines, and websites. He is the founding editor of Noemi Press and an assistant professor the MFA program at Virginia Tech. Visit him at www.el-s.net.