Kris Waldherr
Author · 14 books
Kris Waldherr is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books for adults and children include Bad Princess, Doomed Queens, and The Book of Goddesses. 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.” Waldherr is also the creator of the Goddess Tarot, which has a quarter of a million copies in print. Her Kirkus-starred debut novel The Lost History of Dreams was named a CrimeReads Best Book of the Year and her Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women was an Editor's Choice at the Historical Novels Review.
Books
The Book of Goddesses
1996
Tarot for Storytellers
A Modern Guide for Writers and Other Creatives
2024
Harvest
2001
The Goddess Tarot Workbook
2000
Sacred Animals
2001
The Lost History of Dreams
2019
Bad Princess
True Tales from Behind the Tiara
2018
Love Letters to Poe, Volume III
Tales Torn From the Heart
2024
Unnatural Creatures
A Novel of the Frankenstein Women
2022
Doomed Queens
2008
The Goddess Tarot Deck
1998
Persephone and the Pomegranate
A Myth from Greece
1993
The Lover's Path
An Illustrated Novella of Venice
2005
Embracing the Goddess Within
A Creative Guide for Women
1997
