Ashley Hay (born 1971)[1] is an Australian writer.

She has won awards for both her nonfiction science writing and her novels.

As of March 2022[update] she is editor of the Griffith Review.

Hay is the author of three novels, including The Railwayman's Wife, joint winner of the 2013 Colin Roderick Award[2] and the 2014 People's Choice Award at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.

[3] She won The Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing in 2016 for her essay "A Forest at the Edge of Time",[4] having previously been a runner-up to Jo Chandler for the inaugural award in 2012.