“I love ONCA because it knows that art is never not about the world we live in, and that the place where the natural world meets the arts is a fruitful, fertile place for both.”

Ali Smith was born in Inverness in 1962 and lives in Cambridge. She is a writer of novels, short stories, plays, and criticism. Her latest novel, HOW TO BE BOTH, was recently announced the winner of the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.