Kristin Krebs-Dick was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. She majored in art at Yale University and went on to obtain an MBA from Columbia University. She worked for thirteen years in the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries and for seventeen years in nonprofit management. In 2016, Kristin moved to Florence, Italy, with her husband, Josh, and their three daughters who were ages ten, eight and five. Over ten years she traveled extensively and photographed fourteen countries including eleven regions of Italy and more than sixty cities and towns. Kristin and her family currently reside in Florence. Through Alberti's Window is her first book.