Martina M. Woebcken is a writer and art historian with an international background. Born in Vienna, Woebcken spent her first years in India before moving with her family to Germany. She now lives just outside of Washington, DC with her husband, teenage son, and cat Steward. She misses her two grown daughters, who live in Berlin and Munich, dearly. After studying creative writing with an American author and becoming inspired by her mother's stories about her life in Karachi, Pakistan, Woebcken set out to write her first novel.