Emily Sayre Smith

Emily Sayre Smith grew up in Texas and Arizona, spent two

years in London, worked as a dancer wandering around the

United States for a few years, and settled in NYC for sixteen

years and LA for twenty. She currently lives in Palm Springs, CA.

Hers has been a strange and wandering career path, starting

life as a classically trained ballet dancer, then gym owner,

construction manager, and now author. She took a gun out of

her mouth in April of 1998 and went to an AA meeting. It

stuck so she’s here. “I can’t tell you how liberating it is not to

kill yourself.”

Emily stumbled back into writing in one day’s desperate

attempt to put off cleaning house. She hates cleaning house but

has rediscovered a love of writing. “I’ve been writing in my head

my whole life. I just didn’t realize what I was doing.”

Smartass: A Memoir of a Mouthy Girl is her first book. She’s

halfway through the follow-up to Smartass, which as yet is untitled.

Sober twenty-six years . . . it took a village and some good

therapy. She really needs a housekeeper but is afraid to break

the spell.