Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia. A full-time writer since 2001, he has worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and part-time soldier in the Australian Army reserve. Garth's books include the award-winning fantasy novelsSabriel,Β Lirael, andΒ Abhorsen, and the cult favorite teen science-fiction novelΒ Shade's Children. His fantasy novels for younger readers includeΒ The Ragwitch, the six books of the Seventh Tower sequence, the Keys to the Kingdom series, andΒ A Confusion of Princes. His books have appeared on the bestseller lists of theNew York Times,Β Publishers Weekly, theΒ Guardian, and theΒ Australian, and his work has been translated into forty languages. He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and two children.