#About
Mark Smith lives on Victoria’s Surf Coast, where he runs an outdoor education campus for a large Melbourne boys’ school. His debut novel The Road To Winter was shortlisted for the Australian Indie Book Awards, the Aurealis Awards and the WA Young Readers’ Book Awards. It was been published in both the UK and US this year. The sequel, will be released in August, 2017, and the third of the Winter trilogy, in late 2018. 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.