birth_place nationality birth_date period image article_title name occupation alma_mater
inverness , scotland scottish 1962 1995 -- present alismith2011.png ali smith
 ali smith novelist university of aberdeen
ali smith

ali smith cbe frsl -lrb- born 1962 in inverness -rrb- is a scottish writer .
she was born to working-class parents , raised in a council house in inverness and now lives in cambridge .
she studied at the university of aberdeen and then at newnham college , cambridge , for a phd that she never finished .
she worked as a lecturer at university of strathclyde until she fell ill with cfs/me .
following this she became a full-time writer and now writes for `` the guardian '' , `` the scotsman '' , and the `` times literary supplement '' .
openly gay , she lives in cambridge with her partner filmmaker sarah wood .
in 2007 she was elected a fellow of the royal society of literature in 2009 , she donated the short story `` last '' -lrb- previously published in the manchester review online -rrb- to oxfam 's ` ox-tales ' project , four collections of uk stories written by 38 authors .
her story was published in the ` fire ' collection .
smith was appointed commander of the order of the british empire -lrb- cbe -rrb- in the 2015 new year honours for services to literature .
