Elizabeth Barrette has been involved with the Pagan community for more than twenty-seven years. She has served as managing editor of PanGaia and dean of studies at the Grey School of Wizardry. Her book Composing Magic: How to Create Magical Spells, Rituals, Blessings, Chants, and Prayers explains how to combine writing and spirituality. She lives in central Illinois. Visit her blog The Wordsmith’s Forge (ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com) or website PenUltimate Productions (penultimateproductions.weebly.com).
Blake Octavian Blair is a shamanic practitioner, ordained minister, writer, Usui Reiki Master-Teacher, tarot reader, and musical artist. Blake incorporates mystical traditions from both the East and West with a reverence for the natural world into his own brand of spirituality. Blake holds a degree in English and religion from the University of Florida. He is an avid reader, knitter, crafter, pescatarian, and member of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD). Blake lives in the New England region of the United States with his beloved husband. Visit him at www.blakeoctavianblair.com or write him at blake@blakeoctavianblair.com.
Deborah Blake is the award-winning author of the Baba Yaga and Broken Rider paranormal romance series and the Veiled Magic urban fantasies. She has also written The Goddess Is in the Details, Everyday Witchcraft and numerous other books, along with a popular tarot deck. She writes the ongoing column Everyday Witchcraft in Witches & Pagans. Deborah can be found online at Facebook, Twitter, her popular blog (Writing the Witchy Way), and www.deborahblakeauthor.com. She lives in a 130-year-old farmhouse in rural upstate New York with various cats who supervise all her activities, both magickal and mundane.
Deborah Castellano is a frequent contributor to occult/Pagan sources such as the Llewellyn annual almanacs, PaganSquare, and Witches & Pagans. She blogs at Charmed, I’m Sure. Deborah’s book, Glamour Magic: The Witchcraft Revolution to Get What You Want, was published with Llewellyn in the summer of 2017. She resides in New Jersey with her husband, Jow, and their cat.
Dr. Alexandra Chauran (Port Moody, BC) is a second-generation fortune-teller, a high priestess of British Traditional Wicca, and the queen of a coven. As a professional psychic intuitive for over a decade, she has served psychic apprentices and thousands of clients. She received a master’s in teaching from Seattle University and a doctorate from Valdosta State University and is certified in tarot. She can be found online at SeePsychic.com.
Chic and S. Tabatha Cicero are Chief Adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as reestablished by their mentor, Israel Regardie. (Visit www.hermeticgoldendawn.org.) The Ciceros have written numerous books, including The Essential Golden Dawn, Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition, The Golden Dawn Magical Tarot, and Tarot Talismans. Both are prominent Rosicrucians: Chic is currently Chief Adept of the Florida College of the SRICF and Tabatha is Imperatrix of the SRIA in America (www.sria.org).
Dallas Jennifer Cobb practices gratitude magic, giving thanks for personal happiness, health, and prosperity; meaningful, flexible, and rewarding work; and a deliciously joyful life. She lives in paradise with her daughter in a waterfront village in rural Ontario, where she regularly swims, runs, and snowshoes. A Reclaiming Witch from way back, Jennifer is part of an eclectic pan-Pagan circle that organizes empowered and beautiful community rituals. Contact her at jennifer.cobb@live.com.
Monica Crosson is the author of The Magickal Family: Pagan Living in Harmony with Nature and Summer Sage. She is a Master Gardener who lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, happily digging in the dirt and tending her raspberries with her husband, three kids, three goats, two dogs, two cats, many chickens, and Rosetta the donkey. She has been a practicing Witch for twenty-five years and is a member of Blue Moon Coven. Monica is a regular contributor to Llewellyn’s annuals.
Melissa Cynova is owner of Little Fox Tarot and has been slinging tarot cards and teaching classes since 1989. She can be found in the St. Louis area and online for personal readings, parties, and beginner and advanced tarot classes. Her first book, Kitchen Table Tarot, was released in 2017. Melissa lives in St. Louis with her outstanding kids, her sweet husband, Joe, two cats, two dogs, and a tortoise named Phil. When she’s not slinging cards, she’s enjoying her tribe and probably watching a superhero movie while reading a book. Find her on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Autumn Damiana is an author, artist, crafter, and amateur photographer. She is a Solitary Eclectic Cottage Witch who has been following her Pagan path for almost two decades and is a regular contributor to Llewellyn’s annuals. Along with writing and making art, Autumn has a degree in early childhood education. She lives with her husband and doggy familiar in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. Visit her online at www.autumndamiana.com.
Raven Digitalis (Missoula, MT) is the author of Esoteric Empathy and three other books with Llewellyn. He is a Neopagan Priest and cofounder of a nonprofit multicultural temple called Opus Aima Obscuræ (OAO). Raven has been an earth-based practitioner since 1999, a Priest since 2003, a Freemason since 2012, and an empath all of his life. Visit him at www.ravendigitalis.com and www.opusaimaobscurae.org.
Storm Faerywolf is a professional author, teacher, Warlock, and coowner of the Mystic Dream, a spiritual supply store where he teaches and offers services to the public. An initiate of the Faery tradition with over thirty years’ experience practicing Witchcraft, he has been teaching for more than twenty-five. He holds the Black Wand of a Master and is the author of Betwixt & Between: Exploring the Faery Tradition of Witchcraft. He is a founding teacher of the Black Rose school of witchcraft and travels internationally teaching the magical arts. Visit faerywolf.com.
Kate Freuler lives in Ontario, Canada, with her husband and daughter. She owns and operates www.whitemoonwitchcraft.com, an online witchcraft boutique. When she isn’t crafting spells and amulets for clients or herself, she loves to write, paint, read, draw, and create.
Justine Holubets is a Solitary Wiccan practicing ancient Egyptian sacred traditions living in Lviv, Ukraine. She holds a tarot certificate from the British Astrological Psychic Society and works as a tarot and lunar rhythms/astrology consultant for Zodiaclivetarot.com in the UK. A published author focused on philosophical, social, and gender issues, she currently studies psychology at University of Roehampton online and prepares courses to help women maintain healthy, dignified intercultural relationships. Visit http://www.zodiaclivetarotreading.com/tarot-reader?id=129.
James Kambos became interested in magic as a child after watching his grandmother perform spells she learned growing up in Greece. He has a degree in history and geography from Ohio University. He lives in the rural hill country of Southern Ohio.
Tiffany Lazic is a registered psychotherapist and spiritual director with a private practice in individual, couples, and group therapy, and the owner of the Hive and Grove Centre for Holistic Wellness in Kitchener (Canada). She created and teaches two self-development programs and is a frequent guest facilitator at Transformational Arts College of Spiritual and Holistic Training in Toronto (Canada). Tiffany is the author of The Great Work: Self-Knowledge and Healing Through the Wheel of the Year. Visit www.hiveandgrove.ca.
Najah Lightfoot is a writer and contributor for Llewellyn Publications. She is a sister-priestess of the divine feminine, a martial artist, and an active member of the Denver Pagan community. She keeps her magick strong through the indigenous practices of her ancestors, the folk magick of Hoodoo, Pagan rituals, and her belief in the mysteries of the universe. Find her online at www.twitter.com/NajahLightfoot, www.facebook.com/NajahLightfoot, and www.craftandconjure.com.
Jason Mankey is a Wiccan Witch, writer, and wannabe rock and roller. He has been a part of the greater Pagan community for over twenty years and has spent nearly half that time teaching and speaking at Pagan conventions across the United States and Canada. He has written The Witch’s Athame and The Witch’s Book of Shadows and is also the channel manager of Patheos Pagan online. He lives in Sunnyvale, California, where he and his wife, Ari, help lead two local covens. Because they don’t want to be outnumbered, Ari and Jason only have two cats.
Estha K. V. McNevin (Missoula, MT) is a priestess and ceremonial oracle of Opus Aima Obscuræ, a nonprofit Pagan Temple Haus. She has served the Pagan community since 2003 as an Eastern Hellenistic officiate, lecturer, freelance author, artist, and poet. In addition to hosting public rituals for the sabbats, Estha organizes annual philanthropic fundraisers, Full Moon spell-crafting ceremonies, and women’s divination rituals for each Dark Moon. To learn more, please explore www.opusaimaobscurae.org.
Mickie Mueller explores magic and spirituality through art and the written word at her home studio and workshop in Missouri. She is the author/illustrator of The Voice of the Trees, the illustrator of Mystical Cats Tarot and Magical Dogs Tarot, and author of The Witch’s Mirror and Llewellyn’s Little Book of Halloween. Since 2007, Mickie has been a regular article and illustration contributor to Llewellyn’s almanacs and annuals and many Llewellyn books. Her art has been seen as set dressing on SyFy’s The Magicians and Bravo’s Girlfriend’s Guide to Divorce. Visit her online at MickieMuellerStudio.etsy.com
Diana Rajchel has practiced magic since childhood. She lives in San Francisco, where she runs the Emperor Norton Pagan Social and handles the oft-squirrely city spirit. She is the author of the Mabon and Samhain books in the Llewellyn Sabbat Essentials Series and of the Diagram Prize–nominee Divorcing a Real Witch.
Suzanne Ress runs a small farm in the alpine foothills of Italy, where she lives with her husband. She has been a practicing Pagan for as long as she can remember and was recently featured in the exhibit “Worldwide Witches” at the Hexenmuseum of Switzerland. She is the author of The Trial of Goody Gilbert.
Charlynn Walls resides with her family in Central Missouri. She holds a BA in anthropology with an emphasis in archaeology. She is acting CEO of Correllian Education Ministry, which oversees Witch School. She is an active member of the St. Louis Pagan Community and is a part of a local area coven. She writes for Witches & Pagans, in Llewellyn’s annuals, and on her blog, Sage Offerings (www.sageofferings.net).
Charlie Rainbow Wolf is happiest when she is creating something, especially if it can be made from items that others have cast aside. Pottery, writing, knitting, astrology, and tarot are her deepest interests, but she happily confesses that she’s easily distracted, because life offers so many wonderful things to explore. She is an advocate of organic gardening and cooking and lives in the Midwest with her husband and special-needs Great Danes. Visit her at www.charlierainbow.com.
Stephanie Woodfield (Brookfield, CT) has been a practicing Witch for over fourteen years and a priestess for ten years. Her lifelong love of Irish mythology led to a close study of Celtic Witchcraft. A natural clairvoyant and empath, she has worked as a tarot card reader and is ordained as a minister with the Universal Life Church.
Laura Tempest Zakroff can be described as a professional artist, author, dancer, designer, muse, mythpunk, teacher, and Witch. She has been a practicing Modern Traditional Witch for over two decades and blogs for Patheos in A Modern Traditional Witch and Witches & Pagans in Fine Art Witchery. She is the author of Sigil Witchery and The Witch’s Cauldron and coauthored The Witch’s Altar with Jason Mankey. Laura resides in Seattle, WA, and can be found online at www.lauratempestzakroff.com.
Natalie Zaman is the author of Color and Conjure and Magical Destinations of the Northeast. A regular contributor to various Llewellyn annual publications, she also writes the recurring feature Wandering Witch for Witches & Pagans. When not on the road, she’s busy tending her magical back garden. Visit Natalie online at nataliezaman.blogspot.com.