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, and eventually, the Colins moved to California in the late sixties, where she 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 this sparked her to begin a new career at seventy-five. Mady believes that one is never too old to start something brand-new.

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 at major online retailers and at a few bookstores. The books are also available for purchase from Rocky Heights, a local printer in Birmingham, Alabama, which Mady uses to print all her books. The Book Nook at Rocky Heights offers all Mady’s books at a substantial discount and in higher quality with a dust cover. Below is the link.