EM Castellan is a writer of young adult historical fantasy novels. She grew up in France, but she now lives in London. A lover of all things historical, she has a particular fondness for seventeenth-century France and ancient Rome. Her stories on Wattpad have been read over 250,000 times. The Bright and the Lost was the winner of the 2017 Wattpad Awards (Wattys) in the Newcomers category and selected as a Wattpad Featured Story for five months in 2017, and Lily in the Shadows was selected as a June 2018 Wattpad Pick.