Ingrid Thoft

Ingrid Thoft is an American writer best known for the Fina Ludlow series of mystery thrillers. Ingrid was born in Boston Massachusetts and went on to study at Wellesley College, Boston. While she was brought up in northern suburb of Boston, the city played a significant role in Thoft and her family’s life, given that her older sisters schooled there and her parents worked in the city. She has always wanted to be a writer from a very young age and would create her own versions of the New York Times and the Boston Globe, complete with curated illustrations from the home typewriter. As an adult, she wrote in a variety settings some of which include the human resources office at Harvard, an interactive company, and a nonprofit. She has asserted that her parents exposed her to different cultures and hence the family would spend time at concerts, visiting museums, eat at interesting restaurants and seeing the sights of the city. She has always been a voracious reader and cites her early influences as Caroline Keen and Nancy Drew. Drew is a favorite of several generations from her family including her mother, her sisters all the way down to her nieces. Other favorite works that she read during her childhood include the Choose Your Own Adventure books and Encyclopedia Brown series. Together with her husband, she resides in Seattle where she is an active member of the Seattle7Writers. The Seattle7Writers is a group of Northwest authors that seek to foster passion for the written word.