About Jina Bazzar: Jina was born in Brazil, where she lived until the age of thirteen before moving to the Middle East. Soon after she graduated from high school, she was diagnosed with a chronic disease that caused gradual vision loss. She became blind at the age of twenty-two. She has since lived in the United States and Brazil again, and currently resides in the middle- east with her mother and kids , where she is writing an urban fantasy series she plans to start self-publishing soon. The first book is called Heir of Ashes.