Korinthia A Klein

I was born in Detroit, and raised in a tiny suburb called Pleasant Ridge. As a kid I gravitated toward art, then settled on music, majoring in viola in college at The Ohio State University, where I graduated with a BA in Music with Distinction in Music Cognition. I then went on to study lutherie at the New World School of Violin Making. I taught private lessons for many years, and currently play viola with an orchestra called Festival City Symphony, and mandola with the Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra. As my day job, my husband and I run a small violin shop called Korinthian Violins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. We have three kids, a noisy bird, and a weird little dog.

Of all the things I ever did in school, writing came the most naturally. But I didn’t consider attempting novels until I was home with small children and needed a project to do that involved fewer dangerous tools than violin making did. I gave writing fiction a try and discovered it was a blast.

I’m still a violin maker who runs her own shop. I’m still a musician with rehearsals I need to practice for. I’m still a mom and a wife and a daughter and a sister and a friend, but I’m starting to embrace the label “novelist” as something I am worthy of, too. I may have come to it late, but I love it.

Thank you for reading.