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OTHER WRITING BY NOEL SMITH
Noel Smith’s work has appeared in the invitational online anthology Enskyment and online journals Poems Niederngasse and Innisfree. Journal appearances include New Letters, Shenandoah, Poet Lore, West Branch, Appalachian Heritage, Appalalachian Journal, Blueline, Dos Passos Review, Iron Horse and others. An earlier version of this manuscript was a fi nalist for the Tupelo Press First Book Award. “Early April” was selected by Donald Hall for the Yankee Magazine Prize. She received two Denny C. Plattner honorable mentions from Appalachian Heritage for “Chairmaker” and “Floodtime Festival,” a second prize from Byline magazine for “Th e Coal Speculator,” and the Henry V. Larom Award from SUNY Rockland for “Sudden Speech.” She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize three times.

(all photos by Noel Smith)
Noel’s online publication links
Poems Neiderngasse
Archive-issue #79 mar. Apr. 2006 or www.niederngasse.com
Innisfree Poetry Journal or www.innisfreepoetry.org
Innisfree 5, Sept,2007
Noel Smith was born and raised in New York City. After graduating from Wellesley College she became a social worker under Mary Breckinridge at the Frontier Nursing Service in Hyden, a community in Leslie County in Eastern Kentucky. Now retired from teaching in elementary school, she spends as much time as she can visiting in Eastern Kentucky. She lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her husband Peter Fernandez, a writer, director and actor best known for the Speed Racer animated series.
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