Bottom Dog Press, Inc.

Bottom Dog Press, Inc.
813 Seneca Ave.
Huron, OH 44839
ph: 4196021556
fax: 419-616-3966
alt: 419-602-1556
Lsmithdog@smithdocs.net

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Larry Smith

Poet, fiction writer, editor, reviewer, translator, publisher

Larry Smith is a native Midwesterner, born and raised in a working-class family in the industrial Ohio River Valley. In 1965 he graduated from Muskingum Colleg in Ohio and at 21 married a hometown girl, Ann Zaben. He worked in the steel mills that summer and they soon moved to Euclid, Ohio where he taught high school English and Ann began working as a nurse. He earned degrees at Kent State University (M.A. and Ph.D), and was there when the riots and shootings of students occurred. In 1970-1971 he and Ann and their daughter Laura moved to Huron, Ohio where he began teaching at Firelands College of Bowling Green State University. Son Brian (1970) and daughter Suzanne (1975) were born in Huron. In 1980-1981 as a Fulbright lecturer in American Literature, he and his family lived in Sicily.

He is the author of eight books of poetry, two books of memoirs, five books of fiction, two literary biographies of authors Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Kenneth Patchen, and two books of translations from the Chinese with co-translator Mei Hui Huang. His photo history of his hometown Mingo Junction appeared in the Images of America Series. Two of his film scripts on authors James Wright and Kenneth Patchen have been made into films with Tom Koba and shown on PBS.

As a professor of English and Humanities at Firelands College (1970-2010) he taught writing and literature courses and served as director of the Firelands Writing Center, a cooperative of writers. As director of the literary publisher, Bottom Dog Press, Inc., he has edited over 60 books and carried into publication some 220 titles of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.He has been a reviewer for American Book Review, Parabola, Small Press Review, Choice, The San Francisco Review of Books, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohioana Quarterly, Heart-lands, and the New York Journal of Books. He is a requested presenter at various writers conferences in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky. His poetry has been featured on Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. His novel The Free Farm is available from Bottom Dog Press, followed by Lake Winds: Poems (2014) and his memoir The Thick of Thin (2017). Now we have Mingo Town & Memories (2020). He enjoys playing guitar, doing meditation, watching his grandchildren grow.

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Bottom Dog Press, Inc.
813 Seneca Ave.
Huron, OH 44839
ph: 4196021556
fax: 419-616-3966
alt: 419-602-1556
Lsmithdog@smithdocs.net