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Linda Brucesmith is the principal of Aqua Public Relations, Brisbane.

She completed her debut novel, Elsewhere, in 2021, a picture book, The Dishevelled Little Owl, in 2022, and is currently working on a YA novel about a boy who is allergic to numbers.

Her short form works have appeared in The Big Issue; the Southern Key Press anthology, The Heart Will Find A Way; Locative magazine; Black Beacon Books' Murder and Machinery anthology; Saltwater and Other Stories, published by Askance Publishing (Cambridge); AndAlso Books’ Our Inside Voices: Reflections on COVID 19; Going Down Swinging #37; Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #65; Black Beacon Books' 2015 Lighthouses anthology; Melbourne Books' Award Winning Australian Writing 2014; The Review of Australian Fiction; the Margaret River Press The Trouble With Flying 2014 short story collection; Ricochet magazine; Black Beacon Books' 2014 Subtropical Suspense anthology; Askance Publishing’s 2013 Homes anthology (Cambridge); and The Fiction Desk’s 2013 New Ghost Stories anthology (London), among others. She won the Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Mornington Peninsula Prize 2013, was shortlisted for the 2013 KSP Speculative Fiction Awards and the 2013 Aeon Awards (Ireland), and highly commended in the 2012 Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards.