Jeff Smith holds a Ph.D. in English and teaches in the First Year Writing
Program at Louisiana State University. An avid horror movie fan since
the age of ten or so, he has a special fondness for the zombie genre, most
especially the movies of George Romero, which he sees as metaphors for
cultural takeover on the one hand and mindless consumerism on the other. In
some ways, zombies, though technically dead, are a metaphor for life, he
thinks. They just keep coming at you in directions you might never have
imagined. And if youre not always on your toes, youll get eaten alive.
When not teaching writing or avoiding zombies, he spends as much time as
possible in New York City, slumming on Broadway and at the Met.