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Lory Widmer Hess

Lory Widmer Hess is an American recently transplanted to Switzerland, where she lives in dangerous proximity to a cheese factory. She works with developmentally disabled adults and often faces the challenge of nonverbal communication.
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Villeret, Switzerland

Selected work (2 publications)

Ruminate: The Waking, 2018
The Sixth Extinction"It took me three years to work up to reading Elizabeth Kolbert’s book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History; I started reading it once and then returned it to the library after a few pages, unable to face the apocalypse quite yet..."
book review
Cabinet des Fees, 2011
Spinning a Tale"When Rumplestiltskin offers to spin straw into gold for the miller’s daughter, he reveals himself as an initiate of one of the oldest arts of humankind. Spinning has been practiced at least since the dawn of civilization, one of the first ways..."
Essay

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