The Killing Tree

by J.D. Smith

$19.99, FULL-LENGTH, paper

J.D. Smith has published three previous collections,Labor Day at Venice Beach(2012),Settling for Beauty(2005), andThe Hypothetical Landscape(1999). His books in other genres include the humor collectionNotes of a Tourist on Planet Earth(2013), the essay collectionDowsing and Science(2011), and the childrens picture bookThe Best Mariachi in the World(2008). Awarded a Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2007, he has also been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. His individual poems have appeared inThe Able Muse,American Arts Quarterly,Dogwood,Light and Nimrod, as well as numerous other publications, and his prose has appeared inBoulevard,Chelsea,The Laurel ReviewandThe Los Angeles Times. Born in Aurora, Illinois and educated at American University, the University of Chicago, Carleton University and the University of Houston Creative Writing Program, he works as an editor and writer in Washington, DC, where he lives with his wife Paula Van Lare and their rescue animals.