{"id":38,"name":"Marcia Smith","url":"","description":"Marcia Smith was an award-winning journalist before making the switch to teaching English at Dallas\u2019 renowned Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Now in her volunteer years, she teaches English as a second language to immigrants. She also writes personal essays and what she calls \u201cancestories,\u201d short biographies of the dead, finding subjects in her family tree and in Dallas\u2019 historic Oakland Cemetery. Since the pandemic, she published a collection of her work called <i>The Woman in the Well and Other Ancestories.<\/i> She and her best biking buddy, novelist C.W. Smith, have been married 38 years.","link":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/author\/marcia-smith\/","slug":"marcia-smith","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-48x48.jpg","96":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-96x96.jpg"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":50550,"full":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop.jpg","192":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-192x192.jpg","96":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-96x96.jpg","64":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-64x64.jpg","32":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-32x32.jpg","160":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-160x160.jpg","80":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-80x80.jpg","24":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MarciaSmith-head-piccrop-48x48.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}