James Keith Smith
James Keith Smith writes short stuff. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Split Lip Magazine, Moon City Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Pithead Chapel, and others. He grew up in Michigan and now lives in Tacoma, WA.
SELECTED FICTION
Car Shopping Scaffold, March 2026
Nearsighted / Farsighted South Florida Poetry Journal, February 2026
A Beer and a Shot Bull, December 2025
Sweet Pea Flash Frog, November 2025
A Normal Kid Bending Genres, November 2025
Free Checking Published in Pithead Chapel, December 2024
Egg Noodles in Butter Sauce Published in Pithead Chapel, July 2023
Here, boy Published in Split Lip Magazine, March 2023
FORTHCOMING FICTION
At the Kitchen Table Berlin Review, April 2026
Heavy Lifting Moon City Review, May 2026
3 Stories: Game Night, Bruce, Round and Round Farewell Transmission, May / June 2026
Zachary Pithead Chapel, July 2026
NONFICTION
With Each Breath Published in The Critical Flame, Issue 41
Chapbook
Something Happier– Sand and gravel Press. 4.25 x 5.5
Something Happier is a pocket-sized meditation on art, aging, and cosmetic surgery. Short fiction with illustrations, 38 pages.
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