Beryl Singleton Bissell The Scent of God


from this award winning memoir of the search for God that led Bissell into a cloister and out again 15 years later, read by the author.

of the author reading from her award-winning essay for The Art of Recovery at the Minnesota State Arts Board



My Room of One's Own

A memoir that will haunt you!

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Best of 2006 Minnesota Authors --Minneapolis Star Tribune

Beryl lives on the North Shore of Lake Superior - a magical place of birch, maple, and pine forests, rugged cliffs, wildlife -- fox, moose, bear, wolves, chickadees, nuthatches, wild geese, chipmunks and the ever-present and ever-foraging deer. And yes, there are humans, not a lot of them (especially in winter), but mostly a creative, hardy lot.





    My Work

    BOOKS
    The Scent of God: A Memoir
    The collision of human love and faith
    ESSAY
    Return to the Monastery
    While writing The Scent of God
    ANTHOLOGY
    Surviving Ophelia
    "Seven Years in Hell"
    SHORT STORIES
    The White Taxi
    An Italian taxi driver teaches his younger brother, a priest, to drive in 1940s Rome