Ashley Hay is a writer who lives in Brisbane, Australia.

The Body in the Clouds, her first novel, was published by
Allen & Unwin in September 2010. The Weekend Australian called it
"a gorgeous, Fabergé egg of a book, enamelled with literary resonances and rhyming symbols, which we will still be reading decades from now". 

It has been shortlisted as best first novel in the south-east Asia and Pacific region of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize,  for the UTS Glenda Jackson Award for New Writing in the 2011 NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and for the Fiction category of the 2010 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. It has also been longlisted for the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

For reviews of The Body in the Clouds, click here, and for events relating to the book, click here.

Ashley is also the author of four books of narrative non-fiction – The Secret and Gum, and Herbarium and Museum (the latter two in collaboration with photographer Robyn Stacey).

Her essays, short stories and journalism have appeared in anthologies and magazines including Brothers and Sisters, The Monthly, The Bulletin, Best Australian Essays, Heat and When Books Die.

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