About The Author

J. Ashley-Smith is a British-Australian writer of dark fiction and other materials. His short stories have twice won national competitions and been shortlisted six times for Aurealis Awards, winning both Best Horror (“Old Growth,” 2017) and Best Fantasy (“The Further Shore,” 2018).

J. lives with his wife and two sons in the suburbs of North Canberra, gathering moth dust, tormented by the desolation of telegraph wires.