Kai Ash (he/him) currently splits his time between Anaiwan country (Armidale region, NSW) and Yuggera country (Brisbane region, QLD). His creative work was been shortlisted in The Ampersand Prize 2022 (Hardie Grant), Adaptable 2022 (Queensland Writers Centre), the Lane Cove Literary Awards 2021 and the Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards 2020. He was a mentee in the ASA/CA Award Mentorship Program 2022. Kai has lived across Oceania, Europe and the Middle East, and has degrees in psychology, law and gender and cultural studies. He speaks conversational Scottish Gaelic, which he likes to integrate into his fiction writing. His non-fiction work tends to drew on themes of neurodivergence and gender, often grounded in his own lived experience as an autistic trans man.
Tha Kai Ash na sgrìobhadair a’ fuireach ann an dùthaich Yuggera (Brisbane), Astràilia. Tha na sgrìobhaidhean aige air a bhith air a’ gheàrr-liosta airson The Ampersand Prize 2022, Adaptable 2022, Lane Cove Literary Awards 2021 agus Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards 2020. Ann an 2022, bha e pàirt dhen ASA/CA Award Mentorship Program. Tha ceuman aige ann an lagh, inntinn-eòlas agus eòlas gnè is cultarach.
Chan eil ach beagan Gàidhlig aige ach bidh e ga cleachdadh nuair as urrain dha air sgàth ’s gu bheil “nas fheàrr Gàidhlig bhriste na Gàidhlig sa chiste.” ’S ann leis fhèin a tha mearachd sam bith sa Ghàidhlig air an làrach-lìn seo.