Television script-writer and novelist.
Born in Blayney, near Bathurst, Jennifer Smart lived briefly in Newcastle and then in Sydney, where she attended a North Shore high school and then Sydney University.
She worked in television in both Australia (including work on Crash Palace for Foxtel and a five-year stint on Home and Away as first assistant to the director and then script-writer) and in the US (including production roles on Naked Science and I Shouldn't Be Alive). To work in film/TV, she originally trained as a make-up artist, then retrained in Continuity (also known as script supervisor / director's assistant).
These experiences later informed her first novel, The Wardrobe Girl, which is set on an Australian soap opera much like Home and Away.
Sources:
'AWW Feature: Jennifer Smart and The Wardrobe Girl', Book'd Out, 11 March 2014 (https://bookdout.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/aww-feature-jennifer-smart-and-the-wardrobe-girl/)
'Home and Away with Jennifer Smart' Culture Street, 15 April 2014 (http://culturestreet.com/post/home-and-away-with-jennifer-smart.htm).
Shepherd, Hayley, 'Jennifer Smart, author of The Wardrobe Girl, answers Ten Terrifying Questions', Booktopia, 26 February 2014. (http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2014/02/26/jennifer-smart-author-of-the-wardrobe-girl-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/)