Jamie Lyn Smith
Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, teacher and editor who returned to Knox County, Ohio after fifteen years in New York and Los Angeles. She is the Fiction Editor at BreakBread Magazine, a consulting editor at The Kenyon Review, and the founding editor of Bridge. Jamie Lyn’s work has most recently appeared in The Pinch, The Mississippi Review, American Literary Review, Bayou, The Boiler, and The Kenyon Review. Jamie Lyn received a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for Hometown, a novel about millennial crises and the rise of white nationalism in the rural Midwest.
Work by this author
Self Preservation
It was a dreadful February of oxygen tanks, life-thieving coughing fits, bedside vigils, and late-night weeping in the darkened room where my grandfather lay dying.
