Geoffrey Schmidt
Geoff Schmidt, a professor, has published two books of fiction (Write Your Heart Out: Advice from the Moon Winx Motel, Smallmouth Press, 2001, and Out of Time, University of North Texas Press, 2011). He received his MFA from the University of Alabama and his BA from Kenyon College. He has served as an editor of Sou’wester. Among other honors, he has received an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, the Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize six times, being awarded a Special Mention once.