Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, MI, and lives in New Orleans. She is the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835; The Everlasting; and the novels The Story of Land and Sea, and Free Men. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, Paris Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Oxford American, Granta, and Literary Hub. She served as the Eudora Welty Chair for Southern Literature at Millsaps College.
At MacDowell, she worked on revisions for her fourth novel, The Weeds, and wrote several essays. Inspired by other Fellows, she also composed a 30-second song and made five cyanotype prints.
