Chrissie Perry published her first novel, the young-adult romance If Looks Could Kill, in 1994. In 1998, she received a grant from Arts Victoria for the development of a young adult novel. Since then, she has published a number of young-adult novels and children's series: the latter include the Penelope Perfect series, the Go Girl series, and the Girl v. the World series.
Perry has lived in Fairhaven, in the Great Ocean Road area of Victoria, but in 2018 was based in Melbourne.