Kimberly Meyer is a writer and a teacher. In addition to The Book of Wanderings, her non-fiction work appears in The Best American Travel Writing 2012, The Oxford American, Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, Ecotone, Brain,Child and elsewhere. Her audio-documentary work has been featured on Public Radio International’s This American Life. The recipient of numerous fellowships and residencies and a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program, Kimberly currently teaches in the Great Books program in the Honors College at the University of Houston and lives in that thriving, multicultural city of no zoning with her husband and three daughters.