Kris Waldherr

Kris Waldherr’s books for adults and children include The Lost History of Dreams, Bad Princess, Doomed Queens, and The Book of Goddesses. The Lost History of Dreams received a Kirkus-starred review and was an Amazon, BN.com, and Kobo bestseller. The New Yorker praised Doomed Queens as “utterly satisfying” and “deliciously perverse.” The Book of Goddesses was a One Spirit/Book-of-the-Month Club’s Top Ten Most Popular Book. Her picture book Persephone and the Pomegranate was noted by the New York Times Book Review for its “quality of myth and magic.” Her fiction has won fellowships from the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, and a works-in-progress reading grant from Poets \u0026amp; Writers.\n\nAs a visual artist, Waldherr is the creator of the Goddess Tarot, which has a quarter of a million copies in print. Her art has been exhibited in many galleries and museums including the Ruskin Library, the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts.\n\nKris Waldherr works and lives in Brooklyn in a Victorian-era house with her husband, their young daughter, and a Bengal cat.