Michel Smoak Stone was named to the Converse University board of trustees.
She is an educator, community volunteer, and the author of the novels “Border Child” and “The Iguana Tree.”
Smoak Stone is the winner of the Mary Frances Hobson Prize for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Patricia Winn Award for Southern Literature, and the South Carolina Fiction Award.
She is a past board chair of the Hub City Writers Project and has served on Spartanburg Regional Foundation’s Cancer Board, the Clemson University Humanities Advancement Board, the President’s Advisory Council for Wofford College, and the Board of the Girl Scouts of South Carolina – Mountains to Midlands Council.
Smoak Stone serves on the board of trustees of Spartanburg Day School, where she chairs the Committee on Trustees and Governance. She is a Ucross Fellow, A Spartanburg Regional Fellow, a Liberty Fellow and a Fellow of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
