Cecil Castellucci

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, Female Furies and Odd Duck. In 2015 she co-authored Star Wars Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure. She has also written Batgirl for DC Comics. Her short stories and short comics have been published in Strange Horizons, Tor.com, 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) Hockey Noir: The Opera (World Premiere 2018) and Metternich! Princess Pauline Von Metternich (World Premiere 2021). She is the former Children’s Correspondence Coordinator for The Rumpus, a two-time MacDowell Fellow, and was the founding YA Editor at the LA Review of Books. Her pandemic projects have been rewatching every Disney film in order and researching a British World War I soldier. She lives in Los Angeles.