Vivian Teo worked as a financial journalist and editor for fourteen years at major US and UK trade publications. She became a freelance writer to spend more time with her two daughters and write about things close to her heart. This led to My BFF is an Alien, her first middle-grade series. She enjoys writing on parenting and education issues for parenting and blogging on her parenting and lifestyle website, The Stuff Childhoods Are Made Of, at www.vivianteo.com.