Her 2020 book, The End of the World Is Bigger than Love, won a New South Wales Premier's Literary Award in 2021.
[2] She was children's editor at Penguin, where she worked on their list with authors including Mem Fox and Margaret Wild.
[3] She subsequently moved Affirm Press to edit their children's list of writers including Alison Lester and Jane Godwin[4] and then to Allen & Unwin where she work on their children and young-adult list.
[1] Bell wrote a series of four books set in 1918 about a West Australian girl called Alice, who wanted to be a dancer.
[10] At the 2021 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards she won the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature for The End of the World Is Bigger than Love.