Ari­ana Neu­mann grew up in Venezuela. She grad­u­at­ed from Tufts Uni­ver­si­ty with a degree in his­to­ry and received her mas­ter’s in Span­ish and Latin Amer­i­can Lit­er­a­ture from New York Uni­ver­si­ty, where she taught for a year before mov­ing to the UK, when she obtained a post­grad­u­ate degree from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don. She pre­vi­ous­ly worked as a for­eign cor­re­spon­dent for Venezue­la’s The Dai­ly Jour­nal, and her writ­ing has also appeared in The Euro­pean. She cur­rent­ly lives in Lon­don with her fam­i­ly. When Time Stopped is her first book.