Prose #12: Anna Baker Smith

"Creeks of Greensboro" by Anna Baker Smith

(Greensboro, North Carolina) In this essay, Anna Baker Smith recalls her personal, spiritual, and communal history framed by the waterways of her hometown.

This is the twelfth installment of the Belle Point Prose Series, an ongoing collection of short prose works by Mid-Southern writers.

Anna Baker Smith grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina, the granddaughter of a Methodist minister. From 1995 to 2008, she lived and worked at a center for the study and practice of Tibetan Buddhism in Trinity County, California. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she now teaches part-time. Her writing has appeared in Essay Daily, The Fourth River, PANK, Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly, After the Art, and elsewhere.

• Publication Date: June 2023
• Trim size: 5 x 7 inches

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