Sara Bennett Wealer

Sara Bennett Wealer grew up in Manhattan, Kansas (the Little Apple), where she sang with the choir and wrote for her high school newspaper. She majored in vocal performance at the University of Kansas before deciding she had no business trying to make a career as an opera singer. She transferred to journalism school, where nobody cares if you can hit a high C or convincingly portray a Valkyrie.

Aithor of the novel Rival, Sara now lives in Cincinnati with her husband and daughters, and she still sings when her schedule allowsmost recently with the May Festival Chorus, the official choir of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.