Corinna Lothar was born in Europe and grew up in San Francisco. She is a graduate of the University of California, the Interpreters School at the Sorbonne in Paris, and George Washington University in Washington D.C. where she earned a law degree. She worked as an actress in San Francisco and in New York; as a tri-lingual simultaneous interpreter and translator in Paris; and as a litigator for the National Labor Relations Board in courts throughout the United States. For the past ten years, she has traveled the world as a free-lancer, writing travel articles as well as restaurant reviews and book reviews for The Washington Times.