Ebony McKenna

Ebony McKenna is a Melbourne writer whose fiction moves between young-reader adventure, playful folklore, and romantic comedy. A Brugel Fairytale Treasury: far-fetched fables gathers comic legends from Brugel, the invented European setting connected with her four-part Ondine sequence. Robyn and the Hoodettes recasts the Robin Hood pattern around a female-led band, while Lara’s Christmas Gamble adds a seasonal romantic story to her independent list. The Brugel collection revisits the same realm from several storytelling angles, presenting local explanations, distorted fables, and jokes about how traditions acquire authority. Her comedy often lets confident characters misunderstand rules that the reader can see more clearly. McKenna began her working life in regional newspapers and later wrote website material for television programs before concentrating on fiction. Hardie Grant identifies Ondine as her debut novel and notes her background in journalism and television post-production. Across these books, she favors brisk plots, altered fairy-tale expectations, and self-aware humor rather than solemn retellings.