Gregory Blake Smith is an American novelist and short story writer. His novel, The Divine Comedy of John Venner, was named a Notable Book of 1992 by The New York Times Book Review and his short story collection The Law of Miracles won the 2010 Juniper Prize for Fiction.

Smith holds an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College , founded in 1794, is an elite private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick, Maine. As of 2011, U.S. News and World Report ranks Bowdoin 6th among liberal arts colleges in the United States. At times, it was ranked as high as 4th in the country. It is...

 and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has been the George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...

 and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

. He is currently the Lloyd P. Johnson Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College.

Works

• The Devil in the Dooryard (novel), New York: William Morrow, 1986, and London: William Collins, 1987
• The Divine Comedy of John Venner (novel), New York: Poseidon Press, 1992
• The Madonna of Las Vegas (novel), New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005
• The Law of Miracles (short stories), Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011

Honors

• George Bennett Fellow, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1983
• Stegner Fellow, Stanford University, 1984
• National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1988, 2009
• Pushcart Prize
  Pushcart Prize
  The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
  
  , 2006
• Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2010

External links

• “Missing, Believed Wiped,” (short story)
• “Destroying Herman Yoder,” (short story)
• “A Few Moral Problems You Might Like to Ponder, of a Winter’s Evening, in Front of the Fire, with a Cat on Your Lap” (short story)
• Cosmo Dust Versus Mr. Universe (interview)