Claudia Smith
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Claudia Smith is an American writer of flash fiction and short stories. She is the author of The Sky Is a Well and Other Shorts (2007), Put Your Head in My Lap (2011), and Quarry Light (2014). Her fiction has been included in the Norton anthologies New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond (2007) and New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (2018).
Career
Smith’s chapbook The Sky Is a Well and Other Shorts won the inaugural Rose Metal Press Short Short Chapbook Contest. The work was later included in A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women (Rose Metal Press, 2008), a collaborative volume featuring chapbooks by four contemporary flash fiction writers.
Her later collections include Put Your Head in My Lap (Future Tense Books, 2011) and Quarry Light (Magic Helicopter Press, 2014).
Her story “My Lawrence” was included in New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond, edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas and published by W. W. Norton in 2007.[1]
Her work was also included in New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction, edited by James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro and published by W. W. Norton in 2018.[2]
Style and reception
Smith’s writing has been described as compressed and attentive to recurring imagery and intimate detail. Reviewing Quarry Light in American Book Review, Mary Pettice discussed the structural cohesion of Smith’s imagery and thematic treatment of memory and trauma.[3]
In Necessary Fiction, Patrick Thomas Henry described her prose as “crisp, cold and biting as an autumn wind,” noting her attention to precise detail.[4]
Justin Brouckaert, writing for Sundog Lit, commented that her stories are constructed “sentence by sentence,” emphasizing concision and compression in her style.[5]
Kathy Fish, reviewing the collection for The Lit Pub, addressed the atmospheric qualities of Smith’s fiction.[6]
Works
- The Sky Is a Well and Other Shorts. Rose Metal Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-9789848-1-6.
- A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks of Short Short Fiction by Four Women. Rose Metal Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-9789848-3-0. (Contributor)
- Put Your Head in My Lap. Future Tense Books, 2011. ISBN 978-1-892061-32-6.
- Quarry Light. Magic Helicopter Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-936235-73-4.
References
- ↑ Smith, Claudia (2007). "My Lawrence". In Shapard, Robert; Thomas, James. New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 105–110. ISBN 978-0393329382 Check
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- ↑ Thomas, James; Scotellaro, Robert, eds. (2018). New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393357385 Check
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- ↑ Pettice, Mary (March–April 2015). "Comment and Witness". American Book Review. 36 (3): 19.
- ↑ Henry, Patrick Thomas (31 March 2014). "Review of Quarry Light, by Claudia Smith". Necessary Fiction.
- ↑ Brouckaert, Justin (19 June 2014). "Review of Quarry Light, by Claudia Smith". Sundog Lit.
- ↑ Fish, Kathy (19 February 2014). "The Night It Happens the Moon Is Murderously Bright". The Lit Pub.
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