Susan McCallum Smith is a writer, reviewer, editor, and teacher.

Her honours include recognition by Best American Essays, a Pushcart Prize – for which she has been nominated three times – and a Creative Writing Fellowship from the United States National Endowment for the Arts.

She has been a fiction award finalist several times, including at Gulf Coast, New Millennium Writings, The Cincinnati Review, New Letters, and Mid-American Review, and has received the Walter Sullivan Prize from The Sewanee Review.

Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, AGNI, The Gettysburg Review, The Baltimore Review, the Scottish Review of Books, the Dublin Review of Books, TriQuarterly, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Fifth Wednesday Journal, The Sewanee Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. While living in Baltimore, she wrote a regular book column for Urbanite magazine and was a contributing reviewer to WYPR, Maryland Public Radio.

Slipping the Moorings, her short story collection, was published in early 2009 in the United States by Entasis Press.

She often teaches creative writing at the Johns Hopkins University in the Advanced Academic Program, and has enjoyed artist residencies at Yaddo, Tyrone Guthrie, Cove Park, and Moniack Mhor. A graduate of the University of Glasgow and the Writing Seminars at Bennington College, she lives in Scotland.