Mike Smith has published four collections of poetry, including POCKET GUIDE TO ANOTHER EARTH (Dos Madres Press, 2018), BYRON IN BAGHDAD (BlazeVOX books) and MULTIVERSE (BlazeVOX books). His translation of the first part of Goethe's Faust was published by Shearsman Books, and he is co-editor of the anthology, Contemporary Chinese Short-Short Stories: A Parallel Text, published by Columbia University Press. His memoir, AND THERE WAS EVENING AND THERE WAS MORNING (WTAW Press, 2017), won the Gold Medal for Essay/Creative Non-Fiction in the 2018 Independent Publisher Book Awards. He lives with his family of seven deep in the Mississippi Delta.