Demeter and Persephone in the Heartland

Kimberly Meyer’s essays have appeared in Ecotone, Oxford American, Georgia Review, Agni, Southern Review, Fourth Genre, and Brain, Child, and her audio-documentary work has aired on This American Life. She teaches at the Honors College at the University of Houston and is at work on a book in which she retraces the medieval pilgrimage route of a Dominican friar who traveled from Germany to the Holy Land and Mount Sinai in 1483.