Cecilia Dart-Thornton is an Australian author of fantasy novels, notably the Bitterbynde Trilogy.

Dart-Thornton was educated at Monash University where she completed a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in sociology.

The Bitterbynde Trilogy follows the journey of a mute, amnesiac foundling through a world of beauty and peril.

A four-part epic fantasy describing the adventures that befall a cursed and gifted family.