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Steven Ray Smith

 

Steven Ray Smith’s poems are forthcoming in The Yale Review, Southwest Review, Slice, Pembroke Magazine, Aethlon, and The Rio Grande Review. His poems have been published in The Kenyon Review, Grain, Puerto del Sol and others. Steven is president of a culinary school and lives in Austin with his wife and children.

What is your creative process? Are you a night owl or an early bird? Are you in a writing group or a lone wolf?

I write early in the morning, before going to work. I typically read some poetry and then I start writing. After that, I go for a run or a bike ride and then go to work.

What are you reading right now?

All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. I also did the ultimate in book-buying tourism recently when I purchased a copy of The Sun Also Rises at Shakespeare and Company in Paris. I think I’ll reread that classic next.

Your favorite books of all time are…

100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Diaz

Seabiscuit, Laura Hillenbrand