Pip Smith is a writer of poetry, fiction, and songs. She was named an SMH Best Young Novelist of 2018 for her debut novel, Half Wild, an adult literary novel based on the lives of trans man Harry Crawford/ Eugenia Felleni. Half Wild was shortlisted for the 2018 Voss Literary award, the Davitt Award, and longlisted for an ABIA Best Debut Fiction award.

Her first collection of poetry, Too Close for Comfort, won the inaugural Helen Ann Bell award. Pip has had her poetry published in various literary journals around the country, most recently being shortlisted for the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize in 2024 and 2025. She has taught poetry workshops for Writing NSW, and occasionally writes poetry in the evening when all her children are asleep.

Pip's first children’s picture book, Theodore the Unsure, was selected by the International Youth Library Foundation as a White Raven book of 2020. Her picture book, To Greenland! was published through Scholastic in April 2022. She has run simple storytelling workshops in collaboration with illlustrator Beau Wylie for Vaucluse Public School, Cowan Public School, and Ashbury Public School for children in Stage One.

In 2018 she received an Australia Council for the Arts grant to write a literary novel for young adults set on Christmas Island. The resultant novel, The Pull of the Moon, was published by UWAP in June 2025, and has been described by books+publishing as "bold, brave and boundary-pushing."

In 2025 she received a Create NSW grant to research and write a dual timeline literary novel based on a supposition: what if Lilliput from Gulliver's Travels was based on a real utopian settlement of short statured courtiers evicted from the courts of Europe in the 1600s? The novel is dedicated to Pip's short statured son, who was born with achondroplasia (dwarfism), and will be written in consultation with the Short Statured People of Australia.

Pip has worked as a judge for the SMH Best Young Novelist Award and the Woollahra Council Digital Literary Award, holds a masters in creative writing (Sydney University) and a Doctorate in Creative Arts (Western Sydney University) and is also the Manager of the Faber Writing Academy where she teaches the year-long Writing a Novel program. She loves nothing more than to see her students ideas come to life on the page.