Katy Simpson SmithKaty Simpson Smith is the author of the novels The Story of Land and Sea, Free Men, The Everlasting, and The Weeds, as well as the monograph We Have Raised All of You. Her writing has appeared in The Washigton Post, The Paris Review, the Oxford American, and Granta, among other publications. Born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi, she teaches in the Bennington Writing Seminars and lives in New Orleans. Read More Read Less