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Katy Simpson Smith

Katy Simpson Smith
Katy Simpson Smith is the author of The Everlasting along with a study of early American motherhood, We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750-1835, and a novel, The Story of Land and Sea. She lives in New Orleans.


Viewing Blackness Through the Lives of the Medici

Katy Simpson Smith on Identity, Racism, and Reclamation
March 24, 2020  By Katy Simpson Smith
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Why My Students Don’t Call Themselves ‘Southern’ Writers

On Reckoning With a Fraught Literary History
March 13, 2019  By Katy Simpson Smith
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Katy Simpson Smith on House Bill 1523

“Maybe you should write a statement"
April 13, 2016  By Katy Simpson Smith
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Who Can Fictionalize Slavery?

On Writing Across Time and Race
March 30, 2016  By Katy Simpson Smith
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Motherhood, Writerhood, and Calling a Job a Job

On Routine, Solitude, and Dealing with a Five Year Old
November 19, 2015  By Katy Simpson Smith
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