Dominic Smith (author)

Smith was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1971. He grew up in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney. His father was an American corporate manager, his Australian mother worked as a secretary. Smith, one of four children, was eight years old when his parents separated. The following year, the family home burned down and Smith's mother suffered a stroke and became disabled; the family struggled to make ends meet.{{cite news |last1=Baum |first1=Caroline |title=Dominic Smith (book review) |publisher=The Age |date=21 May 2016}} Australian politician Tamara Smith is his sister.

Smith graduated from college in 1994 at age 23 with a B.A. in anthropology. He completed an MFA in creative writing on a Michener Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.[https://utdirect.utexas.edu/apps/degree/degrees/nlogon/?s_last_name_read=DOMINO%2C+DELANEY+LYNN&s_last_isn_read=460089&s_first_name_read=DOMINIC%2C+JESSICA+SANJANA&s_first_isn_read=1195516&s_first_time_sw=X&s_start_name=Smith%2C+Dominic&s_start_page=Submit Record of degree on UT Austin website]

He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, an instructional coach and early-childhood specialist. He has two daughters. Smith has taught in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.[http://wwcmfa.org/faculty-2/ Warren Wilson faculty]

Smith's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly and The Australian.{{cite web |title=Stewart O’Nan Returns to the Fictional Maxwell Family (Published 2019) |website=The New York Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205164231/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/books/review/stewart-onan-henry-himself.html |archive-date=2022-12-05 |url-status=live |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/books/review/stewart-onan-henry-himself.html}}{{cite web |title=Dominic Smith |website=The Atlantic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230605081943/https://www.theatlantic.com/author/dominic-smith/ |archive-date=2023-06-05 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/author/dominic-smith/}}[https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/twin-wells-11/ Fiction by Smith in Texas Monthly][https://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/bernhard-schlinks-woman-on-the-stairs-storyteller-gazes-into-a-haze/news-story/bae97c8ddf7c491e8495d635a16262fd Book Review by Smith in The Australian] His novel The Last Painting of Sara de Vos was a New York Times bestseller.[https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374146856 Bio on Macmillan website]

• Return to Valetto: A Novel (2023 Farrar, Straus, Giroux in USA; Allen & Unwin in Australia)
• The Electric Hotel: A Novel (Farrar, Straus, Giroux/Sarah Crichton Books, June 2019)
• The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (2016, Farrar, Straus, Giroux/Sarah Crichton Books in USA; Allen & Unwin in Australia){{cite news |last1=Harrison |first1=Kathryn |title=The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (book review) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/books/review/the-last-painting-of-sara-de-vos-by-dominic-smith.html |accessdate=8 May 2019 |work=New York Times |date=8 April 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Swinn |first1=Louise |title=A picture of art and its sense of mystery (book review) |publisher=Sydney Morning Herald |date=4 June 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Shapira |first1=Ian |title='The Last Painting of Sara de Vos,' a riveting tale of art theft (book review) |work=Washington Post |date=5 April 2016}}
• Bright and Distant Shores (Atria, 2011){{cite news |last1=Bradley |first1=James |title=The new Pacific solution (book review) |publisher=Weekend Australian |date=26 February 2011}}
• The Beautiful Miscellaneous (Atria, 2007)
• The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre (Atria, 2006)

• National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship 2018[https://www.arts.gov/nea-literature-fellowships/dominic-smith NEA Fellowship Listing]
• Australia Council for the Arts New Works Grant[https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/fiction/literary-fiction/The-Last-Painting-of-Sara-de-Vos-Dominic-Smith-9781743439951 Allen & Unwin website]
• Dobie Paisano Fellowship[https://dobiepaisano.utexas.edu/previous-fellows Paisano Fellowship Listing]

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Category:21st-century American novelists

Category:1971 births

Category:Michener Center for Writers alumni

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