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E. S. Furlán is a contemporary Australian fantasy author and illustrator. She is best known for her fantasy art, which largely depicts her fantasy world Caerphy and its inhabitants. Furlán's first novel, The Tainted Shrine, was initially released in 2017.

was raised in northern Italy from the age of 9 through to the age of 14, attending the local public school and becoming fluent in Italian and the local dialect. She subsequently moved back to Australia and lived with her grandmother in Melbourne to continue her high school education. In Year 11, she fell pregnant and gave birth to a healthy girl, before completing her Victorian Certificate of Education at age 20 in an adult learning centre. Despite showing promise in her professional writing and editing degree, she dropped out of university after her second year to marry an Australian living overseas.