Jasmin McGaughey

Jasmin McGaughey is a Torres Strait Islander and African American writer and editor. In 2019 she was lucky enough to be a black&write! editor intern and a Wheeler Centre Next Chapter recipient, and in 2020 was KYD's inaugural First Nations Editor in Residence. Since then, she has been able to write for Overland, Kill Your Darlings, SBS Voices & Griffith Review. Jasmin is also the author of Ash Barty’s Little Ash Series.

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