The Eye of the Day is the new novel by UEA writer Dennison Smith and is published by Periscope this week. Dennison graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2012 and is currently completing her PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. Originally from Chicago and now a Canadian citizen, Dennison is a novelist, poet and playwright whose work has been performed and published in England, Canada and the U.S. Her first novel, Scavenger, was published by Insomniac Press in 1998, and her first collection of poetry, Anon Necessity in 2010. Her second collection of poetry Fermata was published in 2012. She currently working on her third novel, The Westward Hours.