Dr Kelly Wade, PhD, PAMI is an award-winning author, full-funnel marketing specialist and lifelong gardener with a passion for making complex topics practical, engaging and easy to understand.

Drawing on her background in science, research and strategic communications, Kelly has written books covering gardening, children's fiction and practical non-fiction. Her gardening books combine scientific principles with real-world experience to help home gardeners grow healthier, more productive and more sustainable gardens.

Professionally, Kelly helps organisations that solve crucial problems achieve sustainable growth through strategic marketing, research and high-quality content. She has advised Australian and international brands including Lenovo, Renault, LoveToKnow, UniSQ, Denton Pillows, Stockland Queensland, Sunsuper and LJ Hooker. Her work has appeared in Cosmos Magazine and Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, and she has created marketing and educational content for organisations including Salesforce, ANZ, Engineers Australia, Instructure, Chubb, Sydney Zoo, the University of Melbourne, UNSW, QUT and Canvas8.

Kelly enjoys transforming years of research into practical, accessible books that help readers build new skills, solve real-world problems and explore subjects they love. Whether she's explaining companion planting, developing marketing strategy or writing fantasy, her goal is the same: to make readers feel more knowledgeable, more confident and inspired to put what they've learned into practice.

Kelly is currently working on a new middle-grade/young adult fantasy novel as well as an adult epic fantasy novel. If you'd like to know when these books are published, please subscribe to Kelly's mailing list and you'll receive an email when they're published — just click the 'follow this author' button at the top left of this page.