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Kris Herbert

Biography

Kris Herbert

Kris Herbert is a journalist and storyteller who works across disciplines and media formats. She has travelled to Antarctica to write about science and helped large brands tell their stories. She has created immersive non-fiction apps and writes children’s fiction and non-fiction. 

Kris Herbert

Books by Kris Herbert

Deep Breath
by Rita Halász and Kris Herbert - Fiction

When we meet Vera, her body and mind are on a precipice. She’s just left her marital home to live with her father after her husband’s violent outbursts reach a breaking point. She’s experiencing sudden losses of consciousness, spells of insomnia, and difficulty eating. Over the course of the year that follows, she reignites a high school romance, looks to her divorced parents for guidance, attempts couples therapy, struggles to mother two young daughters, develops a brief cocaine dependency, and tries to rekindle her artistic practice --- all while questioning, in Halász’s immediate, intimate prose, the infinite number of choices that led her to this difficult moment. Halász offers a meditation on agency, subjectivity, motherhood, and the artistic vocation with an ultimately optimistic conclusion: life consists of forward movement, in which the biggest challenge is choice.