Yasmin Smith Yasmin Smith i(21273931 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal ; Aboriginal Gubbi Gubbi / Kabi Kabi / Gabi Gabi ; South Sea Islander
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BiographyHistory

Yasmin Smith has worked as a black&write! editor and at the University of Queensland Press. She is of South Sea Islander, Northern Cheyenne, Kabi Kabi and English heritage.

In 2023, she was one of five First Nations delegates to attend the Auckland Writers Festival as part of the Australia Council First Nations Literature Cultural Exchange delegation.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 winner Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers for ''Dawning in the Rivulet of My Father's Mourning'.
2024 recipient Varuna Fellowships — First Nations Fellowship — Flagship Fellowship for their poetry collection ‘salt wattle’
2020 shortlisted The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for 'The Saltpan'.
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Awards for Works

The Burial Feathers 2024 single work poetry
— Appears in: Island , no. 170 2024; (p. 6)
2024 winner Gwen Harwood Memorial Poetry Prize
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