Katherine Koch
I’m an artist and writer with a degree in computer science, and a web administrator at an AI company, who writes WWII historical fiction. How much more diverse can you get?
How did I get to be this way? I was that kid in grade school who could draw photorealistic objects with a pencil when everyone else struggled to scrawl straight lines. And, I LOVED storytelling. Just when I hit college thinking I would pursue a fine arts degree, my parents said, “Yeah, not so fast!”
That’s how I became an artist and writer with a computer science degree. I am also a scholar with a love of learning: I graduated summa cum laude from Kent State University in 2003. I’m a member of Phi Beta Kappa. That was twenty years ago. Today I work as a web administrator a
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