The wonderful writers who grace this issue are:

Yvone Owens, Ph.D.

Tam Lin

Yvonne Owens, Ph.D., is a past Research Fellow at the University College of London, and Emeritus Professor of Art History and Critical Studies at the Victoria College of Art, Victoria, BC. She was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship in 2005 for her interdisciplinary dissertation on Renaissance portrayals of women in art and sixteenth-century Witch Hunt discourses. She holds an M.A. in Medieval Studies from The Centre For Medieval Studies at the University of York, U.K., an M.Phil. in History of Art from University College London and a Ph.D. from UCL, also in art history. Her publications to date have mainly focused on representations of women and the gendering of evil “defect” in classical humanist discourses, cross-referencing these figures to historical art, natural philosophy, medicine and literature. She also writes art and cultural criticism, exploring contemporary post-humanist discourses in art, literature and new media. Her book, “Abject Eroticism: The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien,” was published by Bloomsbury Academic (London) in 2020, and her edited anthology, “Trans-Disciplinary Migrations: Science, the Sacred and the Arts,” was published in 2024 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Previous books include her co-authored works with Jessica North O’Connell as well as “The Cup of Mari Anu” (1995) and “The Journey of the Bard” (1996). She is currently engaged in a multi-disciplinary collaborative work with writer and photographer Dona Ann McAdams titled “Searching for Sheela,” and is a 13th House Mystery School Founder and Elder.

Cristopher Muscato

Riders in the Sky

Christopher R. Muscato is a writer from Colorado, USA. His work can be found in Strange Horizons, Solarpunk Magazine, and Shoreline of Infinity, among other places. He is a winner of the Fight for the Future Stop Copaganda contest, as well as the XR Wordsmith Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase.

 

Eleanor Cooke

Old Willum’s Final Tale

Eleanor Cooke is a neurodivergent eighteen-year-old, who loves writing, sewing, and her two cats. She also adores, but does not read, poetry.

Lannie Pihajlic

Recycling Can Be Heroic

Lannie lives smack dab where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains with his wife, two poodles and two cats. He is a former college biology teacher (shudder) and current art teacher (chef’s kiss). When not writing or making art, he likes to find inspiration in Nature.

Priya Sridhar

Blanket Girls

Marge Simon

“Another Time, Another Place”

Marge Simon lives in Ocala, FL with the ghosts of two cats.  She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter,  Blood & Spades and her work has appeared in Pedestal Magazine, Asimov’s, The Magazine of F&SF, New Myths, Penumbric, Spectral Realms. She attends the ICFA annually as a guest poet/writer and is a founding member of the Speculative Literary Foundation. A multiple Bram Stoker award winner, Marge is the second woman to be acknowledged by the SF &F Poetry Association with a Grand Master Award. She received the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.

Chinmay Khare

“Bird of the Blizzard”

Chinmay Khare is a dedicated economist and researcher currently pursuing his doctoral studies. He enjoys reading and expressing his thoughts on a variety of topics across different genres and writing formats. Always eager to learn, he seeks to explore new avenues and expand his skills in both fiction and non-fiction writing.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chinmay-khare/

Instagram: @sir_kaptaan_95

Irisanya Moon

“insightful / incite-full“

Irisanya Moon (she/they) is an author, witch, international teacher, poet, and Reclaiming initiate with 20+ years of experience in magick. She teaches classes and workshops in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, blending grounded, graceful, and radically authentic facilitation to inspire transformation and liberation at personal and collective levels.

From Moon Books:
Earth Spirit: Honoring the Wild, Gaia; Pagan Portals: Reclaiming Witchcraft, Aphrodite, Iris, Norns, Artemis, Circe, Hestia*, The Muses*, Hecate*, Athena*; Pantheon: The Greeks*; Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-being

She has written essays, articles, poems, and blogs for Witches & Pagans, Pagan Dawn, Coreopsis Journal, Moon Books, Revelore Press, Llewellyn, Epona Muse Publishing, and Patheos Pagan.

Irisanya also self-published a book of poetry, wrecked: the insistence of grief.

Irisanya cultivates spaces of self-care/devotion, divine relationship (whatever that means to you), and community service as part of her heart magick and activism.

www.irisanyamoon.com

*not yet released