Bill Smoot teaches humanities courses at Castilleja, a prep school in the San Francisco Bay Area. During the summers he teaches with the Prison University Project at San Quentin Prison. His short stories and essays have appeared in a number of periodicals including The Sun, Crab Orchard Review, and Orchid. His work of nonfiction, Conversations with Great Teachers, was published by Indiana University Press.
They were making love by the light of the oil lamp she had given him for […]
