Romy Ash is a Melbourne based writer. Her first novel Floundering was shortlisted for the 2011 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and is published by Text Publishing. Romy Ash has written for The Griffith Review, The Big Issue and frankie magazine. She writes a cooking column for Yen magazine and the blog Trotski & Ash. She won the 2011 GREW award for fiction.