Carmen M Smith

The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction. Neil Gaiman, Orange” Aimee Bender, The Color Master” Joyce Carol Oates, Blue-bearded Lover” Michael Cunningham, The Wild Swans” These and more than thirty other stories by Franci...

How does a contemporary woman with a career as a poet, professor, and editor experience motherhood with one small child, another soon to be born, and her own mother suddenly diagnosed with a brain tumor and Alzheimer’s? The dichotomy between life as a mother and life as an artist and professional i...

This book is a 5 Year Garden Journal. The journal is to keep all your records of your growning notes.

Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Latino/Latina Studies. Edited by Carmen Giménez Smith, with John Chévez. The contemporary literary moment the anthology ANGELS OF THE AMERICLYPSE: NEW LATIN@ WRITING attempts to capture is one defined by diversity, various points of view, literary styles and voices, topical c...

This distinctive collection introduces a new type of mythmaking, daring in its marriage of fairy tale tropes with American mundanities. Conspiratorial, Goodbye, Flicker describes the interior life of a girl whose prince is a deadbeat dad and whose escape into a fantasy world is also an escape into l...