Annick Smith is author of the memoir Homestead, as well as a collection of essays, In This We Are Native, and a history of the tallgrass prairies, Big Bluestem. She was co-editor with William Kittredge of the Montana anthology, The Last Best Place, and co-editor with Susan O’Connor of The Wide Open: Prose Poems and Photographs of the Prairie. Her short stories and essays have appeared in many magazines and journals including Story, Outside, Orion, Audubon, Travel & Leisure, Triquarterly, and the NY Times Traveler. Smith’s film credits include being executive producer of the feature HEARTLAND and co-producer of A River Runs Through it. Her documentary credits include a public television series The Real People, for KSPS-TV, Spokane, about seven tribes in the Inland Northwest, as well as a portrait of poet Richard Hugo, Kicking The Loose Gravel Home. Smith was a founding member of the Sundance Film Institute, has won numerous literary and film awards, and directed the Yellow Bay Writers Workshop for eleven years. She has taught creative writing at the University of Montana as well as other writing workshops and conferences. She has lived in Montana’s Blackfoot Valley since 1971, raised a family there, and has been an ardent voice for conservation and protection of the environment.
