C. S. Pacat is a bestselling Australian author, best known for the
Captive Prince trilogy, published by
Penguin Random House in 2015.
Pacat was born in
Melbourne, Australia, and was educated at the
University of Melbourne.
[3] She
[a] lived in several different cities including
Perugia where she studied at
Perugia University, and Tokyo, where she lived for five years.
[4][2] Pacat wrote the
Captive Prince trilogy around her day job as a translator while training as a geologist.
[1] Pacat is queer and
genderqueer, using both she/her and he/him pronouns.
[5] She identifies as "a proud
wog,"
[6] 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
[7]....There's a lot of wog-politics in the series, although its rarely read from that perspective outside of Australia.