A Shield of Paris — Larry Smith

Larry Smith has published fiction, poetry, and a variety of nonfiction in literary journals throughout the world. His 2016 novella Patrick Fitzmike and Mike Fitzpatrick (Outlook 19) traverses the political, sexual, and spiritual terrain of the modern Catholic Church. A former business journalist with thousands of bylines, and retired executive of a public relations and crisis management firm, Smith grew up in Cleveland and migrated to New York in the late 1960s. His story collection Floodlands is also published by Adelaide Books (2019). He is currently compiling a third collection of stories called High and Dry as well as a collection of hybrid nonfiction entitled Nicole Simpson: The Untold Story.