Ashley Hay
{{Short description|Australian writer}}
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{{Infobox writer
| name = Ashley Hay
| image = Ashley Hay for Griffith Review.jpg
| caption = Hay appears for Griffith Review in 2019
| occupation = {{Cslist|Novelist|science writer|editor}}
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1971}}
| awards = {{Plainlist|
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| website = {{URL|http://www.ashleyhay.com.au/}}
}}
Ashley Hay (born 1971){{Cite web |title=Ashley Hay |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/A4851 |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=AustLit}} is an Australian writer. She has won awards for both her nonfiction science writing and her novels. {{As of|2022|March}} she is editor of the Griffith Review.
Career
Hay is the author of three novels, including The Railwayman's Wife, joint winner of the 2013 Colin Roderick Award{{Cite web |last= |date=2014-10-15 |title=Edgar and Hay joint winners of 2014 Colin Roderick Award |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2014/10/15/31507/edgar-and-hay-joint-winners-of-2014-colin-roderick-award/ |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}} and the 2014 People's Choice Award at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.{{cite web |date=19 May 2014 |title=Winners 2014 NSW Premier's Literary Awards announced tonight |url=http://blog.sl.nsw.gov.au/media/index.cfm/2014/5/19/winners-2014-nsw-premiers-literary-awards-announced-tonight |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201045923/http://blog.sl.nsw.gov.au/media/index.cfm/2014/5/19/winners-2014-nsw-premiers-literary-awards-announced-tonight |archive-date=1 February 2016 |access-date=28 March 2022 |website=State Library of New South Wales}}
She won The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing in 2016 for her essay "A Forest at the Edge of Time",{{cite web |author=Smith |first=Deborah |date=2016-11-11 |title=Essay on eucalypts wins science writing prize |url=https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/essay-eucalypts-wins-science-writing-prize |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=UNSW Sydney Newsroom}} having previously been a runner-up to Jo Chandler for the inaugural award in 2012.{{Cite web |last= |date=2012-11-23 |title=Chandler wins inaugural Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing |url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2012/11/23/25631/chandler-wins-inaugural-bragg-unsw-press-prize-for-science-writing/ |access-date=2022-03-28 |website=Books+Publishing |language=en-AU}}
Hay was appointed editor of the Griffith Review in 2018, while founding editor Julianne Schultz took on the publisher's role.{{Cite news |date=2018-05-28 |title=A new phase for Griffith Review |language=en-AU |work=Griffith Review |url=https://griffithreview.com/new-phase-griffith-review/ |access-date=2022-03-28}}
Hay's essays and reviews have been published in journals such as The Adelaide Review, Australian Book Review, The Bulletin, Griffith Review, The Independent Monthly, Island, Southerly and Sydney Pen Magazine, as well as in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian newspapers.
Works
= Novels =
- {{Cite book |last1=Hay |first1=Ashley |title=The body in the clouds |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-74237-242-6 |publication-date=2010}}
- {{Cite book |author1=Hay |first=Ashley |title=The railwayman's wife |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-74343-281-5 |publication-date=2013}}
- {{Cite book |author1=Hay |first=Ashley |title=A hundred small lessons : a novel |publisher=Allen & Unwin |isbn=978-1-925576-66-5 |publication-date=2017}}
= Nonfiction =
- {{Cite book |last1=Hay |first1=Ashley |title=The secret : the strange marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron |publisher=Duffy & Snellgrove |isbn=978-1-875989-59-1 |publication-date=2000}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Hay |first1=Ashley |title=Gum |publisher=Duffy & Snellgrove |isbn=978-1-876631-26-0 |publication-date=2002}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Stacey |first1=Robyn |title=Herbarium |last2=Hay |first2=Ashley |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-60392-8 |publication-date=2004}}
- {{Cite book |last1=Stacey |first1=Robyn |title=Museum : the Macleays, their collections and the search for order |last2=Hay |first2=Ashley |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-87453-3 |publication-date=2007}}
- {{Cite book |title=The best Australian science writing 2014 |publisher=NewSouth Publishing |isbn=978-1-74224-188-3 |editor-last=Hay |editor-first=Ashley |publication-date=2014}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website}}
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Category:21st-century Australian women writers
Category:Australian science writers
Category:21st-century Australian novelists
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