Mady Colin-Flohr has lived in the United States since she was ten. She was born in Indonesia, and the Colin family returned to the Netherlands after Indonesia gained its independence in 1945. The family moved again in 1957 and immigrated to the United States. Mady and her family lived in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, and Maryland.Eventually, in the late-1960s, the Colins moved to California, where Mady met her husband. After their wedding, the intrepid couple was stationed in upstate New York, where their children were born. Mady worked as a graphic artist at the state university during their residency. Eventually, the Flohr family moved and raised their children in Enterprise, Alabama. Mady loves painting and writing. She put those creative energies into her vocation as a teacher. She was an ESL teacher in the Enterprise school system and a Social Justice teacher in her church community. She left teaching in 2002 to care for her parents. She is the mother of three amazing and talented children, Theresa, Chris, and Jules. She is also a grandmother to three remarkable grandchildren, Thomas, Christian, and Nola. Mady is also a great aunt to many nieces and nephews who are very dear to her and sparked her to begin a new career at seventy-five. Mady is the author and illustrator of her books. Finding Sofie is her third children's book; her other books, When Uncle Chris Was a Little Fish and Opa and the Tiger Trap, are all available online and at a few retail bookstores. Mady believes that one is never too old to start something brand-new.
