A copy editor forCanadian Screenwriter Magazine, Smith has worked as a crime and politics reporter for a number of newspapers and magazines. Among others, his work has appeared in The Detroit Free Press, This Magazine, and a handful of anthologies includingIced: The New Noir Anthology of Cold, Hard Fiction and Hard Boiled Love, both from Insomniac Press. He is the author of a collection of short stories called Glue for Breakfast and is also the editor of a newly launched Western fiction zine, Italian style, called Kerosene Road. A native of Windsor, Ontario, Smith is a student of the Detroit pulp scene.