Fiction drawn from shadow. Stories that linger long after the last page.
Misty Hamilton Smith has been writing for over forty years, spinning worlds, characters, and stories entirely from her own imagination, refusing to be confined by genre or convention.
Her work spans novels and short stories across every genre: dark, luminous, strange, and everything in between. If a story demands to be told, she tells it. The only rule is that it must be true to itself.
After decades of writing, she is now bringing a large collection of work into the world, one story at a time. She also writes at Inkroot & Moonlight, her Substack newsletter, where she shares new writing, essays, and the craft behind the work.
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