Kellie, publishing under the pseudonym Lellie Lopter, is an award-winning author, illustrator, and accredited art therapist. She won the Marshall Allan Hill Writing Competition, was a finalist in the NYC Midnight Flash Fiction Competition, and was shortlisted for the Noble Hawk Illustration Prize. Her debut book Rhyme Time (2023) was a finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Awards, while My Brother Born Sleeping (2023) received an Honourable Mention in the Purple Dragonfly Book Awards.

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Kellie studied art in Broken Hill, children’s illustration in Mildura, and completed the Certificate of Professional Children’s Writing with Cengage Australia. She has undertaken mentorships with the NSW Writing Centre and Exisle Academy and was selected for Writers Victoria’s 2024 Writeability Goes Online program. A passionate advocate for children’s literacy, she is a member of SCBWI, ASA, and Writers Victoria and actively contributes to the PLCC Author Backpack Project, Author Pen Pals, and Sunraysia’s Free Little Library Project.