My name is Meryl Herr, and I love to write. My first book, When Work Hurts, hit shelves in March 2025.

Words help me express sometimes deep, sometimes complicated, and sometimes still emerging thoughts about life, work, and what it means to follow Jesus.

Word pictures help me make sense of the world. I can find a metaphor in a mushroom, a simile in a slug. Gardening also helps me make sense of the world. The whole business of life and death that happens with soil and seeds captivates me. So forgive me if I seem overly attached to the agricultural metaphors in Scripture.

I completed my M.Div. and Ph.D. at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Currently, I work as a consultant and live with my husband and two sons in Watkinsville, Georgia.

If you want to check out some of my other writing, check out my Substack or click here for links to other places my work has appeared.