Grant Smithies

As a journalist, Grant Smithies has written extensively on music, art, travel and popular culture in Aotearoa New Zealand over the past 30 years. He co-founded NZ dance festival The Gathering, wrote the 2007 book “Soundtrack: 118 Great NZ Albums”, reviews music for RNZ National radio, and runs tiny Nelson vinyl shack Family Jewels Records. His short fiction has been published in literary journals in the US and the South Pacific and he is currently working on a book of short stories.