Poet · Novelist · Playwright · Scientist
A shimmering bridge between heart and mind.
Thea Iberall crosses the border between science and the arts — a Ph.D. computational neuroscientist who writes visionary fiction, contextual poetry, and plays that ask what we owe each other, and the planet.
Three ways in.
A novel about birds carrying an old secret. A poetry collection tracing the roots of patriarchy. A musical still touring, twelve years on — now also a film.
Visionary fiction
The Swallow and the Nightingale
A 4,000-year-old secret, carried through time by the birds — and a scientist forced to choose between saving them and saving her daughter's happiness.
Contextual poetry
The Sanctuary of Artemis
Poems that trace the roots of Western patriarchal culture through evolution, myth, and neuroscience, from Prague to the Aegean Sea.
Film
We Did It For You!
The story of how women in America got their rights, told by the women who were there — a stage musical since 2010, and now a film with updated songs and a few surprises for those who've seen it live.