

Like most writers, I wrote since I was quite young, but was never really confident with my work or my voice. Her second novel, The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl, was published in September 2014 and has just been shortlisted for this year’s CBCA Book of the Year (Older Readers).

It was also the recipient of the 2014 Ena Noel Award.

Life in Outer Space was shortlisted for the Gold Inky Award, CBCA Book of the Year (Older Readers), WA Premier’s Award, and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her first novel, the YA romantic comedy Life in Outer Space, was the winner of the inaugural Ampersand Project, Hardie Grant Egmont’s initiative to find unpublished Australian YA writers. Melissa Keil is a writer and children’s book editor.
