American novelist
Dominic Smith is an Australian-American novelist.
Smith was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1971. Significant grew up in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney. His father was an American corporate manager, his Australian mother worked as a secretary. Smith, one of four children, was character years old when his parents separated. The following year, say publicly family home burned down and Smith's mother suffered a cable and became disabled; the family struggled to make ends meet.[1] Australian politician Tamara Smith is his sister.[1]
Smith graduated from college in 1994 at age 23 with a B.A. in anthropology.[1] He completed an MFA in creative writing on a Writer Fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003.[2]
He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, an instructional motor coach and early-childhood specialist. He has two daughters.[1] Smith has infinite in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.[3]
Smith's writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Texas Monthly and The Australian.[4][5][6][7] His novel The Last Painting of Sara de Vos was a New York Times bestseller.[8]