Easton Smith

Easton lives in Western Massachusetts with his partner, his friends, and a couple of beautiful chickens. His debut novel, Levitations, will be published by New York Review Books in spring 2027.

Fiction:

“Birdwater” – Gulf Coast Magazine, Winter 2026

“The List” – The Cincinnati Review, Fall 2025

Aquifers” – Quarterly West, Summer 2025

“The Milk Incident” – The Kenyon Review, Spring 2025 (Winner of the 2024 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest)

“Meeples” – The Pinch, Spring 2025

What’s It Like?” – The Rumpus, Summer 2024

Nonfiction:

The Essays We Are All Writing about the Grieving Orca Mother” – Kenyon Review Online, 2019

“Dispatches from the War on Christmas” – Columbia Journal Nonfiction Prize Winner (judged by Valeria Luiselli), 2017

“The Pace of Death: On Illness and Borders in the Sonora” – Sonora Review Nonfiction Prize Winnter, 2017

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