A professional writer for six years, Bridget Heos has been published in The Christian Science Monitor, The Kansas City Star and several other publications. Her first children’s book, about the rapper Jay-Z, comes out in 2009. She is working on three more work-for-hire projects for Rosen Publishing on alkaline earth metals, the formation of peninsulas, and Wisconsin then and now. The mother of three boys, ages 3, 6 and 8, she spends her spare time fighting — and losing — Pokémon battles.