Author Description

Waking Red: An Anthology. Thirteen women. Thirteen weeks. Twelve Fairytales/Myths. And a thirteenth creation to emerge as this beautiful spinning wheel collection of their poems and stories. The poems, voices, stories, testimonies, eulogies and revelations in this collection are the elixirs from the call to adventure - Crack Open the Story -writes of passage from May - July 2024. We met over zoom for two hours to sing, commune, hear fairytales and write our way inside and out of them. In my cosmology of reality, mythos and fairytale is the much needed water of life of these times. A well, a chalice, the divine feminine Sophia. Alive and devouring. Alive and transforming. The writings in this bountiful anthology are the creative spells, sacred wells, and eternal flames that thirteen women retrieved on the path of story. English was not the mother tongue of each woman. The women wrote from diverse locations on the map -United States, Poland, England, Australia, Belgium, Germany, Morocco. It was a profound honor to witness and guide these women. Our writing journey was a healing blessing of transformation and renewed sisterhood. An emerging living poem glistening with stardust and moss. May these raw, sensual, fierce, captivating, intoxicating, enchanting, truthful, deep and soulful voices stir the cauldron of inspiration in you too. May you be enraptured, ensouled, enlivened. May the red rose of beauty awaken and unfurl the red in you. And so….we begin with the scent of something hidden, something forgotten, something lost, now found, emerging, remembered. At the center of Crack open the Story. There Blooms their Blooms...