Occupation Writer, editor Spouse Carmen Gimenez Smith Role Writer | Name Evan Lavender-Smith Nationality United States | |
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Born September 6, 1977 (age 46)
Des Moines, Iowa ( 1977-09-06 ) Notable works From Old Notebooks, Avatar Books From Old Notebooks, Avatar | ||
Evan lavender smith reads for the bad shadow affair
Evan Lavender-Smith (born September 6, 1977) is an American writer and editor.
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- Evan lavender smith reads for the bad shadow affair
- From Old Notebooks 2010
- Avatar 2011
- Interviews
- Reviews
- References
Lavender-Smith was raised in Las Cruces, New Mexico. He received a BA in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999 and an M.F.A. in Fiction from New Mexico State University in 2004. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for Puerto del Sol, NMSU's literary journal.
From Old Notebooks (2010)
Lavender-Smith's first book, From Old Notebooks, a cross-genre work combining elements of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry and philosophy, was published in March 2010. Writing in Rain Taxi, literary critic and Harvard University professor Stephen Burt called From Old Notebooks "an anti-masterpiece of an anti-novel," noting novelist David Markson's influence on the book. In TriQuarterly, Barry Silesky wrote that From Old Notebooks "defies placement in a genre ... It is structured like poetry, in shifting events and tones without transition, though ... the language is ruthlessly prosaic." Daniel Nester has referred to Lavender-Smith's From Old Notebooks, along with books by Jenny Boully, as "the best of the poetics of prose poetry with the I-centric essay," and counted Lavender-Smith and Boully as members of a "New Prose" movement in contemporary American literature.
Avatar (2011)
Lavender-Smith's second book, a short novel entitled Avatar, was published in February 2011. The novel consists of a monologue thought or spoken by a character floating in space, between two points of light or "stars."