Annabel Smith migrated to Australia with her family in 1988. In 2004, she gained a PhD in English (Creative Writing) from Edith Cowan University and she has worked as a tutor at Perth's Murdoch University.

Smith's short fiction has been published in a range of journals including Westerly and Southerly, and, in 2010, she received a WA Department of Culture & the Arts development grant. In 2012, she was one of five inaugural recipients of a Creative Australia Fellowship for Emerging Artists, for her interactive digital novel, The Ark.

Source: Australia Council for the Arts, http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/ (04/06/2012), Australian Short Story Festival (22/10/2018).