As of 2018, she has published six books, including an autobiographical trilogy recalling her own childhood experiences, and a booklet on Traveller Dialects (with co-author Robert Dawson).
[1] In 2014 she led a campaign to save the Tinkers' Heart,[2] a Scottish Travellers' monument in Argyll, Scotland.
A well known storyteller and public speaker, Smith has raised awareness of Scottish Travellers at schools in Perth & Kinross, Lanarkshire, Edinburgh and Lothians, Leeds, the Highlands and Islands, Suffolk and London, and at libraries, prisons, universities, clubs and Church groups.
Her first poem, Scotia's Bairn, was inspired by a memory of sitting in a bus in Kirkcaldy when another girl refused to take a seat next to her because she was a Traveller.
[4][5] From a Scottish Traveller family, she lived with her seven sisters and parents in a single decker blue Bedford bus from the ages of five to 15.