Kristin M. Swenson

Kristin Swenson, Ph.D. is the author of several books in addition to this four-volume Babylon/Persia saga of Amytis and Cyrus the Great. Other books include BIBLE BABEL: MAKING SENSE OF THE MOST TALKED ABOUT BOOK OF ALL TIME, GOD OF EARTH: DISCOVERING A RADICALLY ECOLOGICAL CHRISTIANITY, and A MOST PECULIAR BOOK: THE INHERENT STRANGENESS OF THE BIBLE. She wrote the award-winning biopic TELL MISTER LINCOLN, an award-winning screenplay about Harriet Tubman, and a series of poems, HAIKU 365. Dr. Swenson has developed a multi-media eco-grief practice ("A Practice for the World-Smitten, Grief-Stricken Who Will Not Give Up") to help people continue to advocate for the wild with equanimity and joy, and she maintains the "Pretty Good Kitchen" website focused on environmentally friendly living and food. Kristin loves a good story and is fascinated by those remarkable women, oft-forgotten, who helped to shape the worlds they inhabited and that we have inherited. Tenured professor of religious studies, and CEO of Pretty Good LLC, she lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia and Duluth, Minnesota.