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Evan Dalton Smith

Ipswich
Covers:  Culture, travel, film, TV, gear, gadgets, cars, hotels, design, art, theater, comedy, sports, men's style, outdoors, books, architecture, food, games, robots, business, fatherhood.
Doesn't Cover: Interested in everything.
Looking for Andy Griffith, available where books are sold. (Find me on Instagram, Substack, et al.)

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Evan Dalton Smith’s Biography

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My culture reporting and creative work has appeared in the Washington Post, LA Times, Slate, Salon, LA Review of Books, Paris Review, Ploughshares, New Yorker, and elsewhere.

Formerly, I served as Associate Web Editor at Poets & Writers, Inc., and Director of Publications for the Student Press Initiative at Teachers College, Columbia University.

A native of North Carolina, I attended its public schools and university, then lived on the Lower East Side of Manhattan for the better part of two de…

What was your first job as a journalist?

I was sports editor of my high school yearbook, a features writer for my college newspaper, & editor of my college magazine.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, I used an electric Brother typewriter that could erase!

How is social media changing news?

Because of access & immediacy, it's the greatest time to be a writer, yet also dangerous & impoverishing. Still, be excited about narrative.

MacDowell Fellowship

2015 - Creative Writing

Fellowship, residency, and stipend.

Yaddo Fellowship

2000 - Literary Fellowship

Fellowship, residency, and stipend.

Millay Fellow

Literary Fellowship

Fellowship, residency.

Ragdale Foundation

Literary Fellowship

Fellowship, residency.

Keats and Elizabeth Sparrow Keynote Address

2013 - Cultural Journalism

Keats and Elizabeth Sparrow Keynote Address, North Carolina Literary and Historical Association