Beyond Words

The illustrated books and products of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr are well known to lovers of mythology and goddesses. These tools for mythic living include The Lover's Path Tarot, Sacred Animals, a compendium of animals in world mythology, and The Book of Goddesses, a One Spirit/ Book-of-the-Month Club’s Top Ten Most Popular Book.

The Book of Goddesses was also the inspiration and basis for Goddess, a Narada music CD, several illustrated calendars, and The Goddess Tarot, which has over 200,000 copies in print. Waldherr’s picture book retelling of the Persephone myth, Persephone and the Pomegranate, was praised by the New York Times Book Review in a full page review for its “quality of myth and magic,” and by Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., author of Goddesses in Everywoman, as “a beautifully done retelling of the major mother-daughter myth.” Her first novel, The Lover's Path, was published by Harry N. Abrams Books.

Waldherr has also had her illustrations published as greeting cards, book covers, and in magazines. Her artwork has been shown in galleries and museums throughout the United States, including the National Museum of Women in the Arts. She received her BFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, which she attended on full scholarship. She lives and works in Brooklyn, with her husband, anthropologist Thomas Ross Miller, and daughter, Thea Delphine. In her spare time, she plays cello in an orchestra and enjoys travel.