Kell Woods is an award-winning author of fantasy novels that blend fairy tales, history, and folklore, including Upon a Starlit Tide, winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel 2025 and named one of BookPage’s Best SFF & Horror Books of 2025, and the Sunday Times bestselling After the Forest.
 

She studied English literature, creative writing and librarianship, so she could always be surrounded by stories. She has worked in libraries, museums, communications and copywriting, all the while writing about made-up (and not so made-up) places, people and things you might remember from the fairy tales you read as a child.

Kell lives near the sea with her husband, two sons, and three furry distractions.

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She is represented by Julie Crisp at Julie Crisp Literary Agency.