Yasmin Smith

Yasmin Smith is a poet and editor of South Sea Islander, Kabi Kabi, Northern Cheyenne and English heritage. Her poems have appeared in Frankie, Meanjin, Island, Griffith Review, Overland, Australian Poetry Journal, Best of Australian Poetry and more. In 2024 she won the Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers and the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, and received Varuna's First Nations Flagship Fellowship. She is currently an editor at UQP working across fiction, non-fiction, children’s books and poetry where her work includes overseeing their groundbreaking First Nations Classics series.