Kyle Thomas Smith is a writer in Brooklyn, New York.
He is Editor-in-Chief of Sentient City: The Art of Urban Dharma and a frequent contributor to One City, Edge Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito. He is also a Buddhist practitioner and serves on the Leadership Team of The Interdependence Project in Manhattan.

For many years prior to his permanent relocation to New York City in 2003, Kyle facilitated The Free Writers Group, a writers community that he formed in his hometown of Chicago. The Free Writers' methodology had its roots in Natalie Goldberg's Zen-inspired Practice School of Writing. Heavily influenced by Goldberg's creative paradigm, for five years (1999 to 2004), Kyle sought his truest writing voice by filling notebooks with stream-of-consciousness writing for four to six hours a day. Since completing that period of intensive self-training, he has developed and published a growing body of work in the genres of journalism, nonfiction, fiction, memoir and drama. Some of his pieces appear under his pseudonyms, Colin MacGowan and Ethel Moneymaker.

The namesake for streetlegalplay.com is one of Kyle's plays, Eleanor Rigby's Revenge (2002), whose stage directions cite several tracks from Bob Dylan's Street-Legal. Kyle is currently making painstaking revisions to his novel, 85A, which explores the consciousness of a Johnny Rotten-obsessed, anglophile teen in a racially stratified, late Eighties Chicago. Who are Kyle's favorite artists, writers, filmmakers, bands, people, cats? You'll find them referenced repeatedly in the writings and blog posts featured here at streetlegalplay.com.