About The Author

      Bruce Smith is an award-winning journalist, writer and photographer who for three decades covered the Charleston for The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization. His reporting, photos, and multi-media about Charleston and the South Carolina coast have been published across the state, throughout the nation and around the world. He won several AP staff awards and was on a reporting team nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. 

      Bruce has taught writing at both The College of Charleston and Benedict College and is a past winner of the City of Charleston Literary Arts competition. He has given numerous readings of his short stories and poetry, including at Charleston's historic Dock Street Theater. 

     Bruce's fiction has appeared in The Omnibus, House Calls Magazine, Charleston Magazine and the Hilton Head Monthly, among others. He has also served as a consultant to Leadership South Carolina, the state's oldest and most prestigious leadership development organization.

     Bruce is a recipient of the Order of the Silver Crescent, South Carolina's most prestigious service honor, awarded by the governor for "dedication, commitment and leadership," to the people of the state. He has also been honored by groups as diverse as the South Carolina National Guard and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau.

     A graduate of Elizabethtown College, Bruce has a master's degree from the University of South Carolina. He is married to Helen Munnerlyn.