Barbara Ardinger, Ph.D. (www.barbaraardinger.com), is a published author and freelance editor. Her newest book is Secret Lives, a novel of magical realism. Her previous novel, Quicksilver Moon, is also realistic … except for the vampire. Her earlier nonfiction books include Pagan Every Day, Finding New Goddesses, and Goddess Meditations.

To date, Dr. Ardinger has edited more than 250 books, most of them for authors going to small, vanity, or on-demand presses. The 250 projects are both fiction and nonfiction and also include screenplays, children's books, academic discourse (textbooks and doctoral and master's theses), web site text, and some poetry. Fiction edited includes romance, action-adventure, science fiction, western, mystery, historical, speculative, and horror novels. Nonfiction edited includes philosophy (mostly mainstream metaphysics and New Age), Calvinist theology, holistic health, science and technology, political tracts, business topics, history, and memoirs and biography. The authors live around the U.S. and around the world, and for many of them, English is their second language. Barbara has also taught university classes in writing and public speaking and has worked as a technical editor (four different industries).

Barbara lives in Southern California with her two rescued Maine coon cats, Heisenberg and Schroedinger. When she can get away from the computer, she goes to the theater as often as possible—she loves musical theater and movies in which people sing and dance. She is also an active CERT (Community Emergency Rescue Team) volunteer and a member (and occasional secretary pro-tem) of a neighborhood organization that focuses on code enforcement and safety for citizens. She has been an AIDS emotional support volunteer and a literacy volunteer. She is an active member of the neopagan community and is well known for the rituals she creates and leads.

Deborah Blake is the author of over a dozen books on modern witchcraft, as well as the Everyday Witch Tarot, Everyday Witch Oracle, and Everyday Witch's Familiar Oracle. She has also written numerous fiction series, including the Baba Yaga/Broken Riders paranormal romance novels, the Veiled Magic urban fantasy novels, and the Catskills Pet Rescue cozy mystery series.

She lives in beautiful upstate New York in a hundred and thirty year old farmhouse with a bunch of cats who supervise all her activities, both magical and mundane.

When not writing, she loves to read, garden, cook, and herd cats. She can be found on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok, which she is still trying to figure out how to use, as well as her Patreon.

She loves to hear from people who read her books.

Tess Whitehurst (Central California) is a spiritual teacher who focuses on magical practices, mindfulness, and self-love. She has appeared on the Bravo TV show Flipping Out and her writing has been featured such places as Writer's Digest, Llewellyn's annuals, and Spirit and Destiny magazine. In addition to authoring many books and oracle decks, she is the founder and facilitator of Wisdom Circle, an online magical community and learning hub.

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Stephanie Rose Bird, is the author of eight books: 365 Days of Hoodoo (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2018) The Big Book of Soul: the Ultimate Guide to the African American Spirit: Legends and Lore, Music and Mysticism and Recipes and Rituals, (Hampton Road Publishers, 2010), A Healing Grove: African Tree Medicine, Remedies and Rituals (Chicago Review Press, 2009), Light, Bright, Damn Near White: Biracial and Tri-racial Culture in America and Beyond (ABC-Clio-Praeger Press, 2010) Sticks, Stones, Roots and Bones Hoodoo, Mojo and Conjuring with Herbs (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2004) and Four Seasons of Mojo: An Herbal Guide to Natural Living (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2006). Her debut novel, "Out of the Blue" is a young adult fantasy novel and will be released by One Odd Bird Press in 2020. A second novel, "Pine Barren Blues" incorporates Wicca, Hoodoo and Shamanism. "Pine Barren Blues" will also be published by One Odd Bird Press, in late 2020. Both books are a part of a series.

She holds a BFA cum laude from Temple University, Tyler School of Art and a MFA from University of California at San Diego where she was a San Diego Opportunity Fellow. She was a professor of fine art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for many years. She has also taught at the Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago Botanic Gardens and Garfield Conservatory. Bird works as an artist, herbalist, aromatherapist and sole proprietor of Almost Edible Natural Products. Her product line features herbal soap, incense, potpourri, bath salts, sachets and dream pillows.

She has been a professional member of the Handcrafted Soap Maker's Guild, for whom she wrote a column "Soap Worts: Useful Herbs for Soap Makers." Bird has been a member of: the American Botanical Council's Herb Research Foundation; the American Folklore Society, the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy and the International Center for Traditional Child-rearing.

Her writing on herbalism, natural healing, complimentary therapies, herbal lore, goddesses, rituals and ceremonies are featured in "Sage Woman Magazine" "The Beltane Papers," WitchVox.com, DivineCaroline.com, "International Journal of Aromatherapy," "Aromatherapy Today," "The Oracle," "Herb Quarterly," "Herb Companion," "The Llewellyn Magical Almanac," "The Llewellyn Herbal Almanac" "Enlightened Practice," E-pregnancy and "Spell-a-Day." You can also find her work archived on www.naturallycurly.com, where Bird wrote numerous plant profiles for natural hair care.

As a Fulbright Senior Scholar, Bird studied the art, rituals and ceremonies of Australian Aborigines in the outback of the Northern Territory, as a field researchers. Bird's fine art is held in several important national and international art collections, she has exhibited in numerous galleries, museums, universities and public spaces.

Stephanie Bird is a hereditary intuitive and healer specializing in positive energy work and spiritual cleansing using African plant wisdom.

Website: www.stephanierosebird.com

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Twitter: @stephanierosebi

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Astrea Taylor is an eclectic pagan witch with over two and a half decades of experience in the witching world. She’s the author of Intuitive Witchcraft, Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods, and Air Magic. She has a bachelor’s degree in science from Antioch College and a master’s degree in environmental science from Wright State University, which inform her scientific takes on spirituality. In her spare time, she presents workshops and rituals online and at festivals across the country, and occasionally she blogs as Starlight Witch on Patheos Pagan. Find her on Instagram @astreataylor, on Facebook at Astrea Taylor, Author, and on Twitter @AstreaWrites. Learn more at www.astreataylor.com.

Astrea also wrote two fiction books -- "Belle Dame Sans Merci," the story of a wrongfully-incarcerated demon who wants to go to heaven, and "House of Transformation," about a pop star teetering on the brink of collapse who gets help from her estranged best friend.

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Raven Digitalis (USA) is an award-winning author best known for his works on empathy, consisting of The Empath's Oracle, Esoteric Empathy, and The Everyday Empath. He is also the author of a series of books on shadow work, including Shadow Magick Spellbook, A Gothic Witch's Oracle, A Witch's Shadow Magick Compendium, and Goth Craft. Originally trained in Georgian Witchcraft, Raven has been an earth-based practitioner since 1999, a Priest since 2003, a Freemason since 2012, and an empath all of his life. He holds a degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Montana, jointly operated a nonprofit Pagan temple for sixteen years, and is also a professional Tarot reader, Reiki practitioner, and animal rights advocate. His socials and website can be found under ravendigitalis.

Laura Tempest Zakroff is a professional artist, author, dancer, designer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England. She holds a BFA from RISD (The Rhode Island School of Design) and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs.

Laura is the author of the best-selling books Anatomy of a Witch, Weave the Liminal and Sigil Witchery, as well as The Witch’s Cauldron, and the co-author of The Witch’s Altar. Her first oracle deck, The Liminal Spirits Oracle, was released in June of 2020 from Llewellyn Worldwide and has been receiving much critical acclaim, including a 2021 Silver COVR award for best divination product and the International Tarot Foundation's CARTA Award for Best Oracle of 2021.

She helps facilitate social change at the grassroot through wearearadia.org, a movement focused on magical resistance and education. Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch's Handbook to Magical Resistance (Revelore Press) which was released in 2018 and features work from over two dozen magical practitioners. You can find an extensive collection of sigils for change – many of which were co-created with her Sigil Witchery workshop students – on her Patheos blog. Visit her at www.LauraTempestZakroff.com.

Jason Mankey read his first book on Witchcraft in the seventh grade, and at age 22 dedicated his life to the Craft. Today, Jason is a third degree Gardnerian High Priest and helps run two Witchcraft covens in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Ari. Jason is a popular speaker at Pagan and Witchcraft events across North American and Great Britain, and has been recognized by his peers as an authority on the Horned God, Wiccan history, and occult influences in rock and roll and heavy metal music. He is the channel manager at Patheos Pagan, the world’s most read Pagan blogging site, and writes there at Raise the Horns, and at the magazine “Witches and Pagans.”

Melissa Tipton is a Jungian Witch, Reiki Master, and Tarot Coach who has helped hundreds of clients transform their lives and uncover their soul's path. Founder of Jungian Magic, she teaches online courses in magic, divination, shadow work, and more at http://realmagic.school/. Tipton lives in Missouri with her husband.

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Arts and history advocate by day and magical writer by night, Natalie Zaman has been exploring mystical practices for decades. An avid Tarot-reader and story teller, she is the author of the award-winning books, Color and Conjure and Magical Destinations of the Northeast (Llewellyn), the co-author of several young adult fiction books, and a regular contributor to Llewellyn’s annual publications. Curiously, she shares a birthday with her home state of New Jersey, though she is a bit younger.