Aisling Smith is a Naarm/Melbourne-based writer. She won the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers in 2020. Her debut novel, After the Rain, was published by Hachette Australia in 2023 and was longlisted for the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.
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