About

I come from a long line of teachers, travelers, and eccentrics, and I guess you could say it shows. For most of my career I’ve been a professional editor, writer, and/or ux writer, most recently in the education field. I’ve been a practicing Wiccan since my teens—which seems like the late Cretaceous Period at this point—and I started teaching Wicca in college—very, very badly and long before I was ready. That humbling experience eventually led me to write my first book, Wicca for Beginners, which I envisioned to be both a basic primer for people who didn’t have access to a teacher and the “textbook” I wished I’d had when I started teaching. I followed that up with A Teaching Handbook for Witches and Pagans in the hopes of helping other teachers find their confidence, learn from my embarrassing blunders, and begin teaching from a better foundation than I did.

I took my pen surname from my great-great-great grandmother, who apparently caused something of a scandal in her tiny Scottish village by dancing in the moonlight around the Pictish standing stone in the village square. The women from that side of the family are a tad odd and have some serious wanderlust, and I think I’ve inherited both traits, not to mention a love of megaliths.

I live with my menagerie of pets, including a megalomaniacal parrot, Her Nibs. I love art, folklore, ancient history, and very, very bad movies—a sad fact you’re probably painfully aware of if you follow me on Twitter—and when I’m not traveling, I’m plotting my next adventure.