Ellie’s books have been published worldwide and optioned for television. She was involved in the creation of the #LoveOzYA campaign to promote and advocate for Australian YA literature and contributed to the critically-acclaimed Begin End Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology. She often teaches writing and publishing at public events, and is a regular speaker at festivals, schools, and libraries.

Ellie has lived in Indonesia, India and Singapore. She’s spent a lifetime researching in mortuaries, talking to law enforcement and autopsy specialists, and asking former spies how to make explosives from household items, and now she lives quite sedately in south-eastern Australia with her family as she writes her next book.