Tuesday, September 13, 2011
High Praise From Down Under: UT Alum Nominated for Top Australian Literary Prizes
The accent is still there, made faint by long years away from Australia.
Dominic Smith, a 2003 alumnus of the Michener Center’s MFA program in writing, was born in Brisbane and grew up in Sydney, but his education and work have taken him far from the continent since—he earned his B.A. in Iowa and worked in the dotcom boom in Europe before coming to The University of Texas at Austin for graduate school. Smith seems to have found Texas to his liking,…
