Celia Bell's short fiction has appeared in VQR, the White Review, the Sewanee Review, the Southern Review and elsewhere. She lives in Austin, Texas, where she works in beekeeping when not writing. The Disenchantment is her first novel.
The writing has the quality of velvet about it, so lusciously rich that it folds you into a thrilling love story ... Beautifully researched. -- Sally Gardner Gripping, filled with a quietly persuasive tension that kept me turning the page and beautiful, moody description, both evocative and authentic -- Crystal Jeans, author of the Inverts