Tune into Youtube Live for a chat between two authors, former collaborators, and friends. Mikki will be joined by Jamie Lyn Smith to discuss the writing of Conversations with Mother Mary– and your questions are welcome, too: submit one here.

Jamie Lyn Smith is a writer, editor, and teacher. She earned her BA in English and Theatre from Kenyon College, her Masters in Education from Fordham University, and her MFA in Creative Writing from Ohio State. Jamie Lyn is a founding member of BreakBread Literacy Project, Editor-at-Large at BreakBread Magazine and a reader for the Kenyon Review. Her work has appeared in The Pinch, The Mississippi Review, The Kenyon Review, American Literary Review, Yemassee, Bayou, and other fine literary magazines. Her short story collection, Township, debuted from Cornerstone Press in January 2022. She is currently writing Hometown, a novel about millennial crises and the rise of white nationalism in the rural Midwest, for which she received a 2020 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.