About

Ebony Frost is a writer and artist, living on Whadjuk Noongar land 

in Boorloo/Perth, Western Australia. 

She is passionate about childhood creativity, self-esteem and neurodiversity, sustainability and conservation.

Ebony grew up on a small farm on the south coast, 

where reading, music, writing, nature and art filled her days. 

Ebony is constantly reading children's fiction (picture books through to young adult) and greatly admires the work of so many contemporary and classic authors.

When Ebony is not writing stories, you will find her at her day job in science communication, sketching (on paper or Procreate), pestering her husband to read her drafts, teaching herself piano, walking her dog, jumping into the ocean, dancing around the kitchen (while making banana pancakes!), or reading many books to two beautiful small humans.

Ebony qualified as a journalist because she'd heard she could get paid to write stories. Her original plan involved jetting off to become 

a foreign correspondent, though she had little understanding of what that actually meant ...

Suffice to say, she did not become a foreign correspondent.

As it turned out, her Bachelor of Arts degree led to all sorts of jobs, including washing puppies in a pet store, managing a shoe shop, promoting a new line of lipsticks, selling evening wear in Harrods, sewing handbags, packing show bags,

working at a photocopy counter and even becoming a 

very under-qualified careers advisor (?!). 

Ebony eventually found her way into roles that utilised her skills in 

copy writing, marketing, photography, graphic design and event management, including a 7-year-streak as founder of her own event platform called Unwrapped: the marketplace, which helped hundreds of emerging creatives find their audience.

Her dream to write books has always been in the pipeline (she even went back to uni to complete a postgrad in creative writing).

In 2020:
Inspired by her experience of parenting during a pandemic, Ebony published two children’s picture books: ‘UH OH It’s a Panda-emic!’ (2020) and ‘Lockdown Land’ (2021). The latter being listed in the Top 5 picture books about the pandemic by Emily Gale for Guardian Books.

Ebony is now a Verified Author on Medium.

In 2021, she completed the AWC's Writing Picture Books course with Zanni Louise, joined the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators (SCBWI) and the Australian Society of Authors.

Ebony received an Honorable Mention in Jackie Hosking's 

2022 Writing In Rhyme Competition.

Her futuristic ocean adventure, ‘A Paper Legacy’, was published in the young adult anthology ‘Dust Makers’ (2022). 

In the 2023 CYA Competition for picture books, Ebony received a Highly Commended Award for her unpublished manuscript Amelia Hues (who won't smile on cue).

In 2023, her short story 'How Silence Works' was published in the Stringybark Stories Anthology 'Feral'.

In 2025, her picture book story ‘Songs of a Cyclone’ was published in The School Magazine (March Edition)

In 2025, her short story 'Flow' was shortlisted in the NYC Fiction Rhyming Story Challenge from a global field of entries.

Ebony has many new manuscripts currently in progress, including a middle grade novel and graphic novel.

Much like fishing, Ebony has always loved 

the thrill of snapping an amazing photograph. 

Photography has taught her to be persistent and patient, above all else. 

Born from a combined love of travel, architecture and 'people watching', Ebony developed a keen interest in street photography and urban landscapes and went on to produce two photographic exhibitions of her work: ‘Appetite Electric’ (2012) and ‘Go where time takes you’ (2017). 

Ebony's love of music enabled the incredible privilege (and possible hearing loss) of snapping musicians up close 

including Kimbra, Eskimo Joe, Passenger, Boy & Bear, Macklemore, among others.

Other highlights include:

• Making the Top 100 in the Fremantle Portrait Prize (2017);
• Top 20 spot (#13) in the Australian Photography Awards, Landscape and Environment category (2017);
• Top 10 (#5) in the GST Awards, judged by Christian Fletcher and Tony Hewitt; 
• Featured photographer for Canon's LEAP project with her shot of a golden ferris wheel (2017) 
• Ebony has been lucky enough to take portraits of many babies, families and individuals in a professional capacity.

As an illustrator, Ebony considers herself still very much a student, despite many decades of drawing, sketching and cartooning as a hobby. 

While she continues to develop her style and direction, Ebony admires many great children's book author/illustrators such as Jane Massey, Charlie Mackesy, Kylie Howarth, Briony Stewart, Judy Horacek, Gabriel Evans, James Foley, Bruce Whatley, Alison Lester, Philip Bunting and Jim Field, just to name a handful.

In October 2024, her illustration 'We Are The Trees' was part of the 'Drawn By Her' exhibition (Paper Bird Bookshop & The Literature Centre).