Freda Love Smith

Freda Love Smith is a writer, teacher, and retired rock drummer. Her first book, Red Velvet Underground: A Rock Memoir, with Recipes, was published in 2015 and her second book, I Quit Everything: How One Woman’s Addiction to Quitting Helped Her Confront Bad Habits and Embrace Midlife, will be published on September 19, 2023. She teaches at Northwestern University, Lesley University, and Bookends & Beginnings, and she played drums with Blake Babies, Antenna, Mysteries of Life, Gentleman Caller, Some Girls, and Sunshine Boys. Freda is a contributing writer to the “Sound of Our Town” podcast and reviews nonfiction for Booklist.

Photos by Alex Hazel.