Woods at Barlow Bend (Smith)

Author Bio
• Birth—August 28, 1975
• Where—Mobile, Alabama, USA
• Education—B.F.A., University of South Alabama; M.A.E., Northern Michigan University
• Currently—lives in Columbia, South Carolina


As a teen in Mobile, AL, Jodie Cain Smith listened as her grandmother told her the gripping story of an adolescence spent in 1930’s rural Alabama, the rumors surrounding her parents, and the murder trial that would alter her life. The tale took root in Jodie’s memory until at last it became The Woods at Barlow Bend, her debut novel released in 2015 by Deer Hawk Publications.

While attending the University of South Alabama, where she earned a BFA in Theatre Arts, Jodie met her husband Jay. They began their life on the Army road in 2001 and have not stopped moving since. As an Army Wife, she has lived in six different states spanning from the extreme heat of Texas to the blizzards of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where she earned a MAE in School Counseling at Northern Michigan University, to most recently landing in South Carolina.

Jodie Cain Smith’s feature articles and columns have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Military Spouse’s Soul, Petigru Review, Savannah Morning News, and Fort Hood Sentinel. Her second novel with Deer Hawk Publications, Jubilee Bells, will be released in 2016. (From the author.)

Vsit the author's website and her blog The Queendom.