Moses Smith

Moses Smith was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. He was the kid who did all of it. He acted in the school plays. He played drums from junior high through high school. He played football, and he played it well enough to go to the University of Arkansas on it, where he studied computer information systems and turned that into a career as a software engineer.

In college he rapped. Conscious hip-hop, the kind with something to say. That was the first time he put what was in his head down on paper. Rap came easy. Fiction did not. He kept the stories anyway.

He was forty when he decided to stop putting hard things off. He built the app he had been meaning to build for years. He started a YouTube channel about Stoicism and the plain business of how to live, and the channel taught him more than it taught anybody watching. Hard things stay hard right up until you sit down and do them.

So he bought some books on writing and went to work.

He writes about working people, the families that made them, and the one impossible thing that shows up in an ordinary life. Quiet men who fix what nobody asked them to fix. What grief costs, and what it asks for.

The Weight of a Coin is his first novel under his own name.