Elizabeth Powell (1895 – 16 May 1988) was an Australian travel writer and author of children's and young adult fiction.

[3][4] She also wrote of her travels by camel and car in Central Australia and by boat in Papua for The Sydney Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Australian Woman's Mirror from 1925.

[12][13][14][15] Having studied watercolour painting with Julian Ashton,[1] in 1928 she provided the illustrations for The Wild Oats of Han by Katharine Susannah Prichard.

[16] Writing as Patricia Ann, Powell answered readers' personal questions in a column for the Sun News-Pictorial in the 1930s.

As a child, Neil contributed short fiction pieces to his mother's syndicated pages.