Luca Smith is a British-Italian novelist and former radio producer. Raised in Leeds and Rome, Smith studied history at the University of St Andrews before working with archival audio at a community station in North Yorkshire. The obsession with forgotten frequencies and everyday courage informs Smith's historical fiction, including the acclaimed debut The Salt Drawers and the follow-up Ash & Aerials.
Smith's essays have appeared in small magazines and on BBC Radio 4 documentaries, and short fiction has been shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award and the Bridport Prize. When not writing, Luca Smith volunteers digitizing oral histories and teaches evening classes on narrative craft. Smith lives in Brighton with a partner, an elderly cat named Barclay, and shelves of valve radios rescued from car boot sales.
