Trudi Canavan is the author of the bestselling Black Magician trilogy--"The Magician's Guild", "The Novice", and "The High Lord"--as well as "Priestess of the White" and "Last of the Wilds", Books One and Two of her Age of the Five trilogy. She lives in a little house on a hillside, near a forest, in the Melbourne suburb of Ferntree Gully in Australia. She has been making up stories about things that don't exist for as long as she can remember, and was amazed when her first published story received an "Aurealis" Award for Best Fantasy Short Story in 1999. A freelance illustrator and designer,