Devanni Ambalavanam grew up in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. Many of her stories are inspired by her childhood experiences and her dad reading to her bedtime stories which created a love for reading in her. She would now like to motivate and inspire others young and old to go back to the love of reading. In her free time she does arts and crafts such as quilting, crocheting, organic gardening, writing books and reading bedtime stories to her grandchildren Zach, Zara and Maila.