Thu Buu is a debut author and has been a schoolteacher and educator for more than twenty years. When she was five years old, her family fled Vietnam on a boat and eventually settled in Stockton, California. She earned her Bachelor's in Psychology and Sociology from the University of California, San Diego, and her teaching credentials and Master's in Education at California State University, Stanislaus. When not traveling or having fun with her family, Thu teaches elementary school and writes from her sunny home near Los Angeles, California.