Ali Jane Smith
Ali Jane Smith is the author of the poetry collection The Strange Matter (Life Before Man 2025). Her poems, essays and reviews have appeared in Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Southerly, Overland, Rabbit, Cordite, and Sydney Review of Books. She is a Red Room Poetry and Varuna Alumni. In 2018 she was shortlisted for the David Harold Tribe Poetry Prize and in 2016 she was one of three writers selected for the inaugural Sydney Review of Books Emerging Critics program. She has given readings at Servo Food Truck Bar in Port Kembla, The Sydney Poetry Lounge in Glebe, That Poetry Thing on a Monday Night at Smith’s Alternative in Canberra and Puckey’s Night Markets, Fairy Meadow.
