
Welcome! Please check out Brenda's books, listen to readings and podcasts, read interviews, and have fun!
Welcome! Please check out Brenda's books, listen to readings and podcasts, read interviews, and have fun!
Brenda and her critique partners, Aden Polydoros and Laura Creedle, have fun discussing Brenda's books. There's a reading, an interview, audience Q&A, and live music from Brenda's husband, Doug Goebel, whose songs can be found here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXdDwph_DoYT6Gp1I5A9wdw
Brenda Marie Smith lived off the grid for many years in a farming collective where her sons were delivered by midwives. She’s been a community activist, managed student housing co-ops, produced concerts to raise money for causes, done massive quantities of bookkeeping, and raised a small herd of teenage boys.
Brenda is attracted to stories where everyday characters transcend their limitations to find their inner heroism. She and her husband reside in a grid-connected, solar-powered home in South Austin, Texas. They have more grown kids and grandkids than they can count.