Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Smith) - Author Bio

Author Bio
• Birth—N/A
• Where—Sydney, Australia
• Education—M.F.A., University of Texas-Austin
• Awards—(see below)
• Currently—lives in Austin, Texas, USA


Dominic Smith grew up in Sydney, Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. He holds an MFA in writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His short fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in numerous journals and magazines, including Atlantic Monthly.

Recognition
Dominic has been the recipient of the Dobie Paisano Fellowship, the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Prize, the Gulf Coast Fiction Prize, and a new works grant from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts.

Novels
His 2006 debut novel The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. It also received the Steven Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters.

Dominic's second novel, The Beautiful Miscellaneous, came out in 2007 and was a Booklist Editors' Choice. It has been optioned for a film by Southpaw Entertainment.

His third novel—Bright and Distant Shores—was published in 2011. It was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Books of 2011 and chosen by the American Library Association for its annual reading list. In Australia, it was shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year and the Vance Palmer Prize, two of Australia's foremost literary awards.

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, his fourth novel, was published in 2016 to excellent reviews.

Dominic serves on the fiction faculty in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers in Asheville, North Carolina. He has taught recently at the University of Texas at Austin, Southern Methodist University, and Rice University. (Adapted from the author's website.)