LOUISE FARMER SMITH, descendant of pioneer dugout-dwellers and chip-gatherers, grew up in Oklahoma. A former high school and college English teacher, she trained as a family therapist in the children's division of New Hampshire State hospital, and later served on a U.S. congressman's staff. She was a PEN/New England Discovery and her short stories have appeared in literary journals including VIRGINIA QUARTERLY REVIEW, NORTH DAKOTA REVIEW, THE SOUTHEAST REVIEW; and online in NARRATIVE and PERSIMMON TREE, both online. Her latest publication, "Summons to Tulsa," appeared in the August 1 issue of the broadsheet, THIS LAND, from This Land Press.BELLEVUE LITERARY REVIEW nominated "Return to Lincoln" for a Pushcart Prize. That story and five others make up ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF MARRIAGE, A Novel in Stories, her first collection. An extensive and helpful review is available at http://starr-review.blogspot.com. Scroll down to June 3, 2012.Her memoir pieces have been anthologized in I'VE ALWAYS MEANT TO TELL YOU (Pocket Book) and TO FATHERS, (Story Line Press), and her fiction has appeared in DOTS ON A MAP and COMING HOME, both from Main Street Rag Press. An essay, "On Betraying Family," will appear in the October 2012 GLIMMER TRAIN newsletter.Smith's next book, WEDDING STORIES, is a delicious mix of ceremonies and acrimonies, set between the 1920's and 2013, each story devoted to one participant: the bride, the mother-of-the-groom, the florist, the limo driver, etc.She may be contacted through her website, louisefarmersmith.com. Smith lives with her husband on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, always a good source of material.