Linda Raedisch
Linda Raedisch has written four books of nonfiction, including The Old Magic of Christmas: Yuletide Traditions for the Darkest Days of the Year (Llewellyn 2013), which has been translated into Czech, Russian, and Polish, and The Secret History of Christmas Baking: Recipes and Stories from Tomb Offerings to Gingerbread Boys (Llewellyn 2023). Her first novel, Turn Left at the Mooncrow Skeleton, will be released in October 2023. She likes long titles.
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Lisa uses story to explore our connections with the natural world. She works with schools, communities and organisations across the UK and beyond. She also holds workshops and story walks to encourage the development of storytelling skills in nature education and rewilding projects. You'll find more details of current projects and events on her website.
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Clare Hunter has sewn since she was a child. She has been a banner-maker, community textile artist and textile curator for over twenty years and established the community enterprise NeedleWorks in Glasgow. She was a finalist of the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award with a story published in its 2017 Annual. She was also a recipient of a Creative Scotland Award in 2016. She lives near Stirling in Scotland. Threads of Life is her first book.
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Tim Rayborn
Tim Rayborn is a historian, medievalist, and musician, with an MA and PhD from the University of Leeds in England. He is a writer on a variety of topics in history and the arts, from the academic to the amusing to the appalling. He has written nearly 50 books to date.
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Sharon Blackie
Dr. Sharon Blackie is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author, and a psychologist with a background in mythology and folklore. Her highly acclaimed books, lectures and teaching programs are focused on reimagining women’s stories, and on the relevance of myth and fairy tales to the personal, cultural and environmental issues we face today.
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As well as writing six books of fiction and nonfiction, including the bestselling If Women Rose Rooted, her writing has appeared in anthologies, collections and in several international media outlets – among them the Guardian, the Irish Times, the i and the Scotsman. Her books have been translated into several languages, and she has featured in programs by the BBC, US public radio and indepe -
Tenaya Darlington
Tenaya Darlington is a cheese educator and author based in Philadelphia who began penning a cheese blog in 2007 under the name "Madame Fromage." Since then, she has written about artisan cheese for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Organic Life, Cooking Light, Fermentation, CheeseProfessor.com, Culture Magazine, and other publications.
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She teaches food writing on the faculty at Saint Joseph's University and serves as Cheese Director for Tria, a pair of Philadelphia wine bars. In the summers, she co-hosts cheese tours in Europe with a dairy-centric food tour company called Cheese Journeys.
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Arin Murphy-Hiscock
Currently a resident of Montreal, Canada, Arin works as a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Power Spellcraft for Life: The Art of Crafting and Casting for Positive Change (2005), Solitary Wicca for Life: A Complete Guide to Mastering the Craft on Your Own (2005), The Way of the Green Witch (2006), The Way of the Hedge Witch (2009), and Pagan Pregnancy: The Journey From Maiden to Mother (TBA). She is also the editor of the anthology Out of the Broom Closet (2009).
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Arin is a third-degree Wiccan High Priestess in the Black Forest Clan, a tradition linked both by lineage and practice to several other branches of Wiccan thought and philosophy including the Caledonii Tradition, Druidism, Gardnerian practice, Seax-Wicca, general Cel -
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Born in the deep dark south in the mid-sixties. Brom, an army brat, spent his entire youth on the move and unabashedly blames living in such places as Japan, Hawaii, Germany, and Alabama for all his afflictions. From his earliest memories Brom, has been obsessed with the creation of the weird, the monstrous, and the beautiful.
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At age twenty, Brom began working full-time as a commercial illustrator in Atlanta, Georgia. Three years later he entered the field of fantastic art he’d loved his whole life, making his mark developing and illustrating for TSR’s best selling role-playing worlds.
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Kristen Britain grew up in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, where she started her first novel - an undersea fantasy featuring herself and her friends - at the age of nine. She published her first book, a cartoon collection called Horses and Horsepeople, at the age of thirteen. After completing her degree in film production at Ithaca College in 1987 she made the logical (?!) leap from cinema to the National Park Service. Her many years as a park ranger enabled her to work in a variety of natural and historical settings, from 300 feet below the surface of the Earth to 13,000 feet above sea level on the Continental Divide; and from the textile mills of the American Industrial Revolution to the homes of Americans who changed the cours
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Lauren Sandler
I'm a journalist and author who writes about culture and inequality. My new book is called THIS IS ALL I GOT: A New Mother's Search For home.
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When I moved to New York City in 1992, homelessness was already considered a national crisis. The night I unpacked my bags uptown, 23,482 people slept in the city’s public shelters. By the 2015 evening I met Camila, a twenty-two-year old homeless soon-to-be single mother, that number had ballooned to more than 60,000 people.
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Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was an influential American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years. She has influenced such writers as Stephen King, Nigel Kneale, and Richard Matheson.
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She is best known for her dystopian short story, "The Lottery" (1948), which suggests there is a deeply unsettling underside to bucolic, smalltown America. In her critical biography of Shirley Jackson, Lenemaja Friedman notes that when Shirley Jackson's story "The Lottery" was published in the June 28, 1948, issue of The New Yorker, it received a response that "no New Yorker story had ever received." Hundreds of letters poured in that were characterized by, as Jackson put it, "bewilderment, specul -
Ira Levin
Levin graduated from the Horace Mann School and New York University, where he majored in philosophy and English.
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After college, he wrote training films and scripts for television.
Levin's first produced play was No Time for Sergeants (adapted from Mac Hyman's novel), a comedy about a hillbilly drafted into the United States Air Force that launched the career of Andy Griffith. The play was turned into a movie in 1958, and co-starred Don Knotts, Griffith's long-time co-star and friend. No Time for Sergeants is generally considered the precursor to Gomer Pyle, USMC.
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Elizabeth von Arnim
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Tenaya Darlington
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W.J. Long III
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W. J. Long III is a resident of rural North Carolina, living with his wife and two children.
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Dieter Breuers
Dieter Breuers was a German journalist and writer.
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Breuers, originally from Düsseldorf, studied history, German and American studies in Cologne and Berlin. In 1992 he succeeded Jürgen C. Jagla as editor-in-chief of the Kölnische Rundschau/Bonner Rundschau.
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Jacek Wijaczka
Polski historyk, profesor nauk humanistycznych, wykładowca akademicki.
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W 1984 roku ukończył studia z zakresu historii w Wyższej Szkole Pedagogicznej w Kielcach. Magisterium uzyskał za pracę Chrystian Francken - wolnomyśliciel religijny przygotowaną na seminarium prof. Wacława Urbana. Doktoryzował się w 1990 na Uniwersytecie Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu na podstawie pracy zatytułowanej Asverus von Brandt (VII 1509–1559). Dyplomata w służbie ks. Albrechta pruskiego., której promotorem był prof. Janusz Małłek. Stopień doktora habilitowanego uzyskał w 1998 roku na tej uczelni w oparciu o rozprawę Stosunki dyplomatyczne Polski z Rzeszą Niemiecką w czasach panowania cesarza Karola V (1519–1556). Postanowieniem Prezydenta RP z 21 października 2003 -
Leszek P. Słupecki
Leszek Paweł Słupecki – polski historyk, specjalizujący się w historii i archeologii średniowiecza, historii religii pogańskich oraz skandynawistyce; nauczyciel akademicki związany z uczelniami w Siedlcach i Rzeszowie.
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Urodził się w 1956 roku. Po ukończeniu kolejno szkoły podstawowej i średniej podjął studia z zakresu historii, które ukończył magisterium. W 1990 roku w Instytucie Historii Kultury Materialnej Polskiej Akademii Nauk uzyskał stopień naukowy doktora nauk humanistycznych w zakresie historii o specjalności archiwistyka na podstawie pracy pt. Organizacja przestrzeni sakralnej u Słowian zachodnich w okresie wczesnego średniowiecza przed przyjęciem chrześcijaństwa, której promotorem był prof. Stanisław Tabaczyński.
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Aleksander Brückner
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