A Place of Light

An earthy and lyrical novel of redemption set in 12th-century France. The historical figure at its center, Robert of Arbrissel, was an intinerant priest who founded the Abbey of Fontevraud as a refuge for women but was accused of improper relations with them. This novel imagines the inner life of Robert and of three of his closest followers.

Kim Silveira Wolterbeek

Kim Silveira Wolterbeek taught literature and writing at Foothill College in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her fiction has appeared in numerous periodicals, including Buffalo Spree, CALYX, City Primeval: Narratives of Urban Reality, New Millennium Writings, Other Voices, Ratapallax, Room of One's Own, Santa Clara Review, 5Trope, West, Wind Review, Willow Spring, and in A Line of Cutting Women (CALYX). She is the author of The Glass Museum (Bellowing Ark Press).