Anne HeltzelAnne Heltzel earned her MFA in creative writing from the New School. Circle Nine is her debut novel. She says, "I wrote Circle Nine shortly after moving to Mumbai, India, where I lived for a year and a half. It was a surreal and isolating experience t first, giving up my job and friends to move to a country I'd never even seen before. Nevertheless, the magic of the city was ever-present; my reality had, in a sense, changed entirely. This all contributed to the creation of Sam and Abby's cave-palace." Anne Heltzel lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her dog, whose name means "cobbler" in Hindi. Read More Read Less