Ashleigh Mounser is an Australian writer who has been published across print and media. In 2016, Mounser graduated as a Dean's Scholar with a Bachelor of Creative Writing from the University of Wollongong and later completed a Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. She was Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Writer of the Year and recipient of three arts grants from the Bouddi Foundation for the Arts, presented by John Bell.
Her debut feature film Questions and Comments premiered at festivals across Europe, America and South Africa and has received numerous laurels. Her first middle grade novel, How To Be Cooler Than The Moon, was released with Ford Street Publishing in October 2023.
The House at Hanger Hill, released simultaneously in the US, UK and Australia, is her first adult novel.
