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 and 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. Ariana lives in London with her family. When Time StoppedĀ is her first book.