Welcome to my official author site!
I’m Kris Waldherr. My many books for adults and children include Bad Princess, Doomed Queens, and The Book of Goddesses. My fiction has won fellowships from the Virginia Center of the Creative Arts, and a reading grant from Poets & Writers. As a visual artist, I’m the creator of the Goddess Tarot, and have had my illustrations exhibited in the Ruskin Library, the Mazza Museum of International Art from Picture Books, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. I’m also a tarotist who teaches the tarot to writers and other creatives.
My latest book is Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women, which has garnered extraordinary praise. Foreword Reviews calls Unnatural Creatures “an atmospheric, reimagined classic,” while the Historical Novels Review states Unnatural Creatures is “worthy of comparison to Jean Rhys’s Wild Sargasso Sea . . . a splendid achievement from a writer at the height of her powers.” It was honored as an Editor’s Choice, their highest recommendation. In addition, Unnatural Creatures was named one of the 25 best books to read for Halloween by Reader’s Digest. My debut novel The Lost History of Dreams, a Victorian-set gothic, was awarded a Kirkus star and named a best book of the year by CrimeReads. My next book is Tarot for Storytellers: A Modern Guide for Writers and Other Creatives, which will come out in mid-2024.
I live and work in Brooklyn in a Victorian-era house with my family. My literary representation is by Michelle Brower of Trellis Literary Management.
Read on to learn more about my journey as an author and artist.
A History
How it all began, what happened along the way, and where it's going.