Annick Smith is a writer, editor, and filmmaker who lives in Montana’s Blackfoot River valley.  Her books include the memoir, Homestead [Milkweed Editions], as well as a collection of essays, In This We are Native [Lyons/Globe Pequot], and a natural and human history of the Oklahoma tallgrass prairies, Big Bluestem, Journey into the Tallgrass, written for The Nature Conservancy. 

Smith was the co-editor with William Kittredge of the Montana anthology, The Last Best Place, and her work has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Travel & Leisure, The New York Times, Audubon, OUTSIDE, Orion and other magazines and anthologies.  She was a founding member of the Sundance Film Institute, the executive producer of the feature film, Heartland, and a co-producer of Robert Redford’s production of A River Runs Through It.

The Wide Open, a collection of essays, stories, poems, and photographs about northern shortgrass prairies, which she edited with Susan O'Connor, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in the fall of 2008.  Smith is currently finishing a travel-memoir-dog book, Crossing the Plains with Bruno, about traveling with her chocolate Lab.