Writing about race, land and place is Mistinguette Smith’s purpose and joy. Her creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in literary journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, The Common, Emergence Magazine, and Pluck! A Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture. Her guest essays have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today.
Writing about race, land and place is Mistinguette Smith’s purpose and joy. Her creative nonfiction and poetry have appeared in literary journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, The Common, Emergence Magazine, and Pluck! A Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture. Her writing has been anthologized among environmental stories in Wildness: Relations of People and Place, and with LGBTQ voices in Does Your Mama Know, and Other Countries: Voices Rising. Her guest essays have appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer and USA Today.
2021 was a year of return for Mistinguette: after many decades, she returned to writing short stories, and, after a 25-year sojourn, she returned to her home state of Ohio. Immediately upon moving to Oberlin, Mistinguette joined Literary Cleveland and has found a rich home there. You can find what she is writing now at MistinguetteSmith.com.
