Birmingham, Alabama, native Adele Bibb Colvin graduated cum laude from Vanderbilt with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy. She is an active member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Birmingham where she has taught Sunday school and been elected to the vestry. She has also served on the board of a state youth offender facility and tutored there through a local literacy program.

In addition to writing children’s books, Colvin is an inspired songwriter and lyricist, and her work has been published in songbooks, recorded commercially, and used in the worship services of churches of many different denominations. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators in the Southern Breeze regional division and is a member of the Alabama Writers’ Forum. When she is not writing books and music or spending time with her seven grandchildren, she enjoys reading and oil painting. She lives with her husband in Birmingham, Alabama.