Kel E Fox is an author and illustrator with short stories and poetry published with Deadset Press, Breach zine and the Canberra Speculative Fiction Guild. Their first short story, ‘The Inheritance Experiment’, won an editor’s choice award in 2018.

In 2021, Kel released their debut novel, Darkhaven. It’s the first of a contemporary fantasy saga about a 17-year-old girl who gets struck by lightning, develops superpowers, stumbles into a global conspiracy and meets an alien god — all in the same day.

Kel was shortlisted for a 2023 Plaza Prize (SFF First Chapters).

In addition to reading, writing, and painting, Kel enjoys ballroom dancing, Magic the Gathering and eating chocolate. They live in Perth, Australia with their partner, a wilful Alaskan Malamute named after Nighteyes, a pair of diabolical ginger cats and a robot vacuum that picks up all the fur and only occasionally demands pats.