Ali Smith

The vibrant style Ali Smith has brought to her writing and photography--featured regularly in the New York Times , The Guardian , and other publications internationally--was forged in New York's underground music scene where she played bass in the seminal punk / blues / avant-garde band Speedball Baby. After touring worldwide and recording nine albums, Ali released two books of photography about women's lives. The first, Laws of the Bandit Queens , led to a feature on OWN, Oprah Winfrey's...See more

The vibrant style Ali Smith has brought to her writing and photography--featured regularly in the New York Times , The Guardian , and other publications internationally--was forged in New York's underground music scene where she played bass in the seminal punk / blues / avant-garde band Speedball Baby. After touring worldwide and recording nine albums, Ali released two books of photography about women's lives. The first, Laws of the Bandit Queens , led to a feature on OWN, Oprah Winfrey's television network. The second, Momma Love: How the Mother Half Lives , won a Silver IPPY and an International Book Awards prize, was praised by the New York Times , and Gloria Steinem called it "a gift to moms." With a passion for telling women's stories, Ali's memoir, The Ballad of Speedball Baby , is her literary debut. Learn more at AliSmith.com and @mommaloveAli on Instagram. See less