Cecil Castellucci is the award-winning andNew York Times bestselling author of books and graphic novels for young adults includingShade, the Changing Girl,Boy Proof,The Plain Janes,Soupy Leaves Home,The Year of the Beasts,Tin Star, andOdd Duck. In 2015 she co-authoredStar Wars: Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. She is currently writingFemale Furies for DC Comics. Her short stories and short comics have been published inStrange 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) andHockey 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 theL.A. Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles.