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.

Most of my writing can be found on my blog. I was a paid writer for a few years for a now-defunct parenting site called Babble. I wrote an essay in 2007 for them about my experiences as a parent while my husband was deployed the first time, and another when he returned. They hired me on as a personal blogger for the duration of his second deployment, and let me (and a lot of other bloggers) go after Disney took over the site. I was proud to have my blog named one of the Top Military Mom Blogs at Mom.me, which also published this essay about helping other military families.

All of my old writing for Babble can be found in the archive on my blog, as well as all of my blog posts since then. I don’t have as much time for it as I would like, but I still love my blog. If you want to get to know me, that’s where to look.

I can be most easily reached through email at: kory@korinthianviolins.com

I love book clubs. If your book club happens to read something I wrote and has questions, I’m happy to join you in person if I’m able, chat via Skype, or answer questions submitted through email.