Yvonne Smith is an independent researcher, English teacher, and former school principal. She earned her PhD from the University of Sydney where her thesis on Malouf's writings was awarded the Eva Veronka Vidak Memorial Prize for a notable thesis on an Australian topic. Dr. Smith's research on Malouf has been published in Australian Literary Studies, Southerly, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, and in the edited collection What is the Human? Australian Voices from the Humanities (Australian Scholarly Press).
