Maria Amalia Robbin was born and raised in Medellín, Colombia.  Her mother was an American Medical Doctor and her father was a Colombian Agro-Businessman, therefore, she grew up speaking both English and Spanish equally in her home.  She graduated from an American school in Medellín, Colombia and later got a degree in Agro-Business. 

For the past 20 years she has been working as an international food broker selling all kinds of foods in different markets around the world.  Writing had never crossed her mind until a few years ago when she started doing research on her paternal side of the family and realized that she needed to tell all of those stories, which were too good not to tell!!  She had always loved writing and had been good at it, but had never considered it as something she would do on a daily basis. She often laughs and tells a story about an English Professor she had in college who told her she should consider becoming a writer.