Ashley Hay

Ashley Hay (born 1971)^[1] is an Australian writer. She has won awards for both her nonfiction science writing and her novels. As of March 2022^[update] she is editor of the Griffith Review .

Hay is the author of three novels, including The Railwayman's Wife, joint winner of the 2013 Colin Roderick Award ^[2] and the 2014 People's Choice Award at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.^[3]

She won The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing in 2016 for her essay "A Forest at the Edge of Time",^[4] having previously been a runner-up to Jo Chandler for the inaugural award in 2012.^[5]

Hay was appointed editor of the Griffith Review in 2018, while founding editor Julianne Schultz took on the publisher's role.^[6]

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.^[1]

• Hay, Ashley (2010). The body in the clouds. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-74237-242-6.
• Hay, Ashley (2013). The railwayman's wife. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-74343-281-5.
• Hay, Ashley (2017). A hundred small lessons : a novel. Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-1-925576-66-5.

• Hay, Ashley (2000). The secret : the strange marriage of Annabella Milbanke and Lord Byron. Duffy & Snellgrove. ISBN 978-1-875989-59-1.
• Hay, Ashley (2002). Gum. Duffy & Snellgrove. ISBN 978-1-876631-26-0.
• Stacey, Robyn; Hay, Ashley (2004). Herbarium. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-60392-8.
• Stacey, Robyn; Hay, Ashley (2007). Museum : the Macleays, their collections and the search for order. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-87453-3.
• Hay, Ashley, ed. (2014). The best Australian science writing 2014. NewSouth Publishing. ISBN 978-1-74224-188-3.

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