Chris A. Smith is an award-winning San Francisco journalist and writer who has reported from Middle Eastern war zones and American protests, profiled big-city mayors and squatter punks, and produced deep dives into topics ranging from political messaging to asteroid strikes to African acid rock. He has a BA in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MJ in Journalism from UC Berkeley, where he focused on international reporting—mostly in the Middle East and Africa—and documentary photography (samples here). Right now he’s getting his MFA in fiction writing from the University of San Francisco.
For a decade he taught a variety of politics and nonfiction writing courses at the Art Institute of California-San Francisco. He is a surfer, punk/metal guy (he plays guitar in Mystery Cult), and cat person. At work on two books: one, with co-author William Nessen, is a history of the American anti-apartheid divestment movement: Divest Now! The Fight Against Apartheid at America’s Most Radical University (UC Press). The other, The End of Mourning, is a supernatural eco-thriller.
Get in touch: chrisasmith415 [at] gmail [dot] com