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Indiebound has chosen Rivers for its September 2013 Indie Next List, Goodreads names Rivers to “Movers & Shakers” list, and Library Journal tabs Rivers one to look for this fall: Hot debuts.

Attacked and left for dead, his house ransacked and food and supplies diminished, he summons his last reserves of strength to forge a new life above the Line. And to avenge all that he has lost. Shattered by the loss of his wife and unborn child, Cohen has been unable to abandon their home, risking exposure to violent storms as well as roving mercenaries that prey upon survivors. Those who stay behind do so at their own peril. In response to the unrelenting storms and widespread devastation, the federal government instituted a boundary known as the Line, below which citizens can expect no aid. Releasing on September 10, Rivers is set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast after a climate shift in the years following Hurricane Katrina has ravaged the region. Film rights for Smith’s works are represented by Matthew Snyder of the Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency. Smith is represented by Peter Steinberg of The Steinberg Agency, whose clients have been nominated for and awarded Edgars, The Pulitzer Prize, The Story Prize, The Paris Review Discovery Prize, PEN/Faulkner and National Book Awards.įoreign rights are represented by United Agents, the London-based literary and talent agency. He graduated from Mississippi State University and later the Center for Writers at Southern Miss, and he lives in Columbus, Mississippi, with his wife and two daughters. Limited first edition copies of his debut novella, The Hands of Strangers, are available from Main Street Rag Publishing in Charlotte, North Carolina. His short fiction has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and his essays have appeared with The New York Times, University Press of Mississippi, and more. He has been awarded the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction, the Alabama Arts Council Fellowship Award for Literature, and the Brick Streets Press Short Story Award.

Michael Farris Smith is a native Mississippian who has spent time living abroad in France and Switzerland.