Barbara Carlton is a retired architect and author of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. She has always loved music; she studied piano for fourteen years, but is living proof that an art should never be left neglected too long. She volunteers for both San Diego Opera and the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival in Washington.

 

She lives in San Diego, California, with her husband, Barry, and is the mother of two grown children. The Well-Tempered Violinist, Book I of The Gift quadrilogy, is her first novel.