C. S. Pacat

C. S. Pacat is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling Australian author, best known for the Captive Prince trilogy, published by Penguin Random House in 2015.

Early life Pacat was born in Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at the University of Melbourne. She lived in several different cities including Perugia where she studied at Perugia University, and Tokyo, where she lived for five years.

In 2017 she revealed that she was working on a new comic series Fence, about the world of fencing. The series has since been expanded to include a series of novels by Sarah Rees Brennan and was nominated for a GLAAD award in 2019.

In 2019 she announced a new trilogy, Dark Rise, a young adult fantasy novel series. The first installment hit the New York Times bestsellers list in October 2021 and was awarded the 2021 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Personal life Pacat is queer and genderqueer, using both she/her and he/him pronouns. She identifies as "a proud wog". and states that this played an influence while writing the Captive Prince trilogy: "As for the influence on Captive Prince, I'm a bisexual wog, and Damen is a bisexual wog - so there's that ....There's a lot of wog-politics in the series, although its rarely read from that perspective outside of Australia ".