Inger E. Johnson was born and raised in Cali, Colombia, and immigrated to the United States at fifteen. The daughter of an American mother and Colombian father, she has also lived abroad in Austria, Chile, and Uruguay.
A recovering banker and financial planner, Inger now lives in Arizona, where she serves on her local school district governing board, podcasts, hikes, reads, lunches with friends, and dreams up whatever crazy idea she’d like to tackle next.
Inger has written two novels rooted in Colombia. One is a multigenerational family saga that travels from Holy Week processions in Popayán to Cali and the wheat fields of Idaho. The other is a murder mystery involving stolen emeralds, an impostor in a friar’s habit, and a Chief Inspector who reads rooms the way other men read newspapers.
The books could not be more different in tone. What they share is a setting she knows in her bones—and a refusal to treat Colombia as scenery.
