About
Kiva is a mythologist, author, plant healer, and teacher whose work is closely rooted in her relationship with plants, fungi, and the more than human world. with over 20 years of experience as a practicing herbalist and field botanist. She teaches and writes on the subjects of mythopoetic plant medicine, folklore, animism, and archetypal psychology with an emphasis on fairy tale motifs, embodied enchantment, and the forest as archetype. She is the author of A Weedwife’s Remedy: Folk Herbalism for the Hedgewise, and the upcoming Taught by Thorns: Mythic Herbalism and the Medicine of Shadow. Kiva is the cofounder and co-director of the annual Good Medicine Confluence and publisher of Plant Healer Quarterly