Chris A. Smith is an award-winning San Francisco journalist and writer who has reported from Middle Eastern war zones and American protests, profiled big-city mayors and squatter punks, and produced deep dives into topics ranging from political messaging to asteroid strikes to African acid rock. He has a BA in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MJ in Journalism from UC Berkeley, where he focused on international reporting—mostly in the Middle East and Africa—and documentary photography (samples here). For a decade he taught a variety of politics and nonfiction writing courses at the Art Institute of California-San Francisco. He is a surfer, punk/metal guy (he plays guitar in Mystery Cult), and cat person. At work on two books: one, with co-author William Nessen, is a history of the American anti-apartheid divestment movement: Divest Now! The Fight Against Apartheid at America’s Most Radical University (UC Press). The other, The Book of Seven Gates, is a supernatural thriller.
Get in touch: chrisasmith415 [at] gmail [dot] com