Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, editor, activist and educator. She reads fiction for The Kenyon Review and co-edited the Fall 2024 “Rural Spaces” folio with Brian Michael Murphy and Andrew Grace. Her work with young writers includes service as a founding member of BreakBread Literacy Project and BreakBread Magazine, and founding the litmag, Bridge. Her work has appeared in The Writer’s Chronicle, The Pinch, The Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Ploughshares and other fine literary magazines. Her short story collection, Township, debuted from Cornerstone Press in January 2022. She is the recipient of a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Fiction. A lifelong advocate for voting rights and freedom of expression, she lives, writes and works in rural Ohio and New York.
