Sandra Brown Lindstedt was born to write. Raised with five siblings on the south-side of Chicago, she spent her summers with her grandmother in a small town in Texas. Later in life, she married and moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, where she wrote a volume of short stories taken from her well-received memoir, I Am Fireflies Ascending. After being asked by the librarian of the International School of Gothenburg to come and share some of her stories with classrooms of elementary and middle school children, the overwhelming response by the boys and girls led her to write children's stories. Life of a Firefly is her first children's book, and is a combination of poems, songs, and short stories.