Shannon M. Smith is a 1991 graduate of the University of Iowa Writers� Workshop. His poems have most recently appeared in North American Review and Poetry, along with past contributions to New Orleans Review, Stand, and South Florida Poetry Review. He is Assistant Professor of Communications / Humanities at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. His manuscript, The Zone of Middle Dimensions, which includes the poems that appear here, is in search of a publisher. (2000)
