Cecil Castellucci is the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of books and graphic novels for young adults including Shade, the Changing Girl, Boy Proof, The Plain Janes, Soupy Leaves Home, The Year of the Beasts, Tin Star, and Odd Duck. In 2015 she co-authored Star Wars: Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. She is currently writing Female Furies for DC Comics. Her short stories and short comics have been published in Strange Horizons, tor.com, Womanthology, Star Trek: Waypoint, Vertigo Quarterly SFX: Slam!, and many other anthologies. In a former life, she was known as Cecil Seaskull in the '90s indie band Nerdy Girl. She has written two opera librettos, Les Aventures de Madame Merveille (world premiere in 2010) and Hockey Noir: The Opera (world premiere 2018). She is the former children's correspondence coordinator for the Rumpus, a two-time MacDowell Fellow, and the founding YA editor at the L.A. Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles.
