Gloria Chao

About the Author

Gloria Chao is an American author of fiction. She graduated from M.I.T. and started working as a dentist, but turned to writing! She made the decision around 2013 to totally switch her career moving from dentist to writer. She says that the difficulty in it was the amount of uncertainty that can exist in writing, as well as how much effort she put into going to school and pursuing her career. However, now that Chao has switched over to writing as her occupation full-time, she says that she has never loved life more. Chao says that she wakes up every morning in disbelief at how her real life is even better than her dreams and she gets to write all day long. Plus, she can wear whatever she wants while doing this, even pajamas! This beats out her job as a dentist, where she could wear scrubs. Gloria Chao is the author of over 9 books across 3 series. Their most famous work is the Publication Order of Hu Done It Books series, which has garnered millions of readers worldwide. With such a prolific career, Gloria Chao has established themselves as one of the most influential authors in contemporary fiction.