Mark Smith

Mark Smith lives and works on Victoria’s Surf Coast. His debut novel The Road To Winter (2016) was shortlisted for the Australian Indie Book Awards, the Aurealis Awards and the WA Young Readers’ Book Awards. The sequel, Wilder Country, will be released in August, 2017. Mark is also an award winning writer of short fiction, with credits including the 2015 Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize and the 2013 Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, and his work has appeared in Best Australian Stories 2014 & 2015, Review of Australian Fiction, The Big Issue and The Australian.

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