R. T. Smith is editor of Shenandoah and Writer-in-Residence at Washington and Lee University. He has work in this year's Best American Poetry, and his fourteenth collection, Summoning Shades, will be published by Mercer University Press.
 

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The Carolina Quarterly has been publishing the work of established and emergent writers for 65 years. Recent issues have featured the works of Lauri Anderson, James Gordon Bennett, Megan Mayhew Bergman, Sean Bishop, Nicole Terez Dutton, Aaron Gwyn, K.A. Hays, Caitlin Horrocks, Stuart Nadler, Ben Purkert, Valerie Sayers, Ken Taylor, Matthew Volmer, G.C. Waldrep, Jerald Walker, and more. Works published in The Carolina Quarterly have appeared in New Stories From the South, Best of the South, O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prizes, and Best American Short Stories.