Cecil Castellucci

Cecil Castellucci is the two-time MacDowell Colony fellow, the award winning author of five books for young adults, and the YA and children's book editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her most recent book for young adults, The Year of the Beasts, features alternating chapters of prose and comics (illustrated by Nate Powell) and was described by Boing Boing as “A prose narrative that lays its characters' hearts raw and bare.” Born in New York City, Cecil lives in Los Angeles.