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Gregory Blake Smith (born 1951), 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.^[1]

Smith holds an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He has been the George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is currently the Lloyd P. Johnson Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College.^[2]

• 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

• George Bennett Fellow, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1983
• Stegner Fellow, Stanford University, 1984
• National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1988, 2009
• Pushcart Prize, 2006
• Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2010

• “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)