Kell Woods is an Australian historical fantasy author. Her debut novel After the Forest - a re-telling of 'Hansel and Gretel' - was a Sunday Times bestseller, and her second novel Upon A Starlit Tide – a mash-up of ‘The Little Mermaid’ and ‘Cinderella’ fairy tales set in eighteenth-century France – will be released in February 2025.
Kell has studied English literature, creative writing, and history, and writes about made-up (and not so made-up) places, people and things you might remember from the fairy tales you read as a child. Her books, however, are most definitely not for children.
She lives on the NSW South Coast, land that has traditionally been a meeting place for the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups.
