Meta Commerse was Story Parlor Asheville’s Story/Arts Artist in Residence for November 2022. Below are excerpts from the talk-back of her show, “Romance, Jingles, and Dreams,” a weaving of monologue, music, images, movement, and selected story readings from Womaning: A Memoir.
Radio Host Hank Eder Interviews Meta Commerse on The Home Business Success Show
Hank’s guest, Meta Commerse, is a former professor of History and English, an award-winning author and healer. She is a word medicine woman in the Southern Appalachian story medicine tradition inherited from her grandmother. Her works include five books, essays, newspaper articles, one stage play, and more to come. A graduate of Goddard College in Vermont, Meta is founder and CEO of Story Medicine Worldwide. A performing artist and vocalist, she is the mother of three, grandmother to three grandsons, and has since 2009 made Asheville her home.