Victoria Mott grew up in Southern California, studied English literature at the University of California at Irvine, and studied the teaching of writing at the University of California at Berkeley. She now lives in New Jersey and spends her days teaching high school English, writing, and tending to her garden. Victoria is passionate about the environment and the quality of life for all people in the world, especially children. She has written three novels and is working on her fourth which deals with time travel.