Yvonne Aburrow
Yvonne has been a Pagan since 1985, a Wiccan since 1991 and a Unitarian since 2007. She is generally fascinated by religion and spirituality, and is currently studying for an MA in Contemporary Religions and Spiritualities from Bath Spa University. She is the editor of the Pagan Theologies Wiki, the founder of Pagans for Archaeology, and a co-editor of MetaPagan. She contributed a chapter comparing Pagan and Christian LGBT spirituality to a forthcoming book on LGBT spirituality (S. Hunt (ed), Contemporary Christianity and LGBT Sexualities, Ashgate, 2009), and an article on Queer Wicca to the GLBTQ Encyclopaedia. For more information see: http://yaburrow.googlepages.com

Diane M. Champigny (Thea)
Diane M. Champigny (Thea) is a 3rd Degree High Priestess and Lineage Elder of the Alexandrian Tradition of Witchcraft. She is an active member of the Society of Elder Faiths and is currently serving as a Ritualist and Workshop Facilitator for the Wiccan Educational Society, an international Pagan community. Diane is currently in the process of forming an Alexandrian-based coven. Inquiries may be directed to PriestessThea@hotmail.com or for more detailed information about Diane and her work see www.myspace.com/PriestessThea

Sorrell Cochrane
Sorrell Cochrane is a High Priestess, with a talent for divination and second sight. Reclusive by nature, she likes to keep a low profile and let her partner and High Priest take the limelight. Mother to a fey baby born on the solstice, she divides her time between music, magick and motherhood. She has seen and experienced too many strange things to consider anything impossible and bounds from one adventure to another, never needing to worry where life and the Gods will take her next.

Sorita d'Este
Author and esoteric researcher Sorita d'Este describes herself as a student of life's little mysteries. She is passionate about the western esoteric traditions of magick and mysticism, her interests and work span a wide range of subjects including the Celtic, Greek and Egyptian traditions, medieval and renaissance grimoires and palmistry. Her published works include titles such as Practical Planetary Magick; Wicca Magickal Beginnings; The Guises of the Morrigan and The Isles of the Many Gods; which she co-wrote with her author husband, the occultist David Rankine. She is also the editor of Horns of Power and Hekate Keys to the Crossroads. She has lectured extensively on folklore, mythology and magick around the UK and Europe. She currently lives in Monmouthshire, Wales (UK) with David and their young son. To find out more about her work, see www.avalonia.co.uk and www.sorita.co.uk

Nina Falaise
Nina Falaise is an artist and teacher of sacred dance. She presents dance as an alternative way to self-development and to liberating creativity on all levels. Nina has worked with experienced teachers of the Western Mystery Tradition since the 80's, such as Naomi Ozaniec, Marian Green, and Tony Willis. Of sacred dance Nina says, "As the dance moves, vibrating to the sounds of music, she creates a visual image of the unseen. Her body is the poetic voice of the unspoken." For those who are interested in the arts and sacred dance, please contact: leonine.cooper@btinternet.com

Janet Farrar
Janet Farrar is better known as an authority on Wicca and has been a practising Seeress, Medium and Priestess since 1970. With her late husband Stewart, she has written several of the defining books on modern witchcraft including A Witches Bible, and The Witches Goddess. She was joined by Gavin Bone, an initiate of Seax Wicca and the Dorset Tradition who was also trained in Seidr, as her working partner in 1993. Together they have written The Pagan Path (1995), The Healing Craft (1999) and Progressive Witchcraft (2004), in which they first began to explore their work in Trance-Prophecy. They tour regularly in the United States and Europe where they conduct workshops and rituals on the subject, and are currently working on their next book, provisionally titled The Four Key of Trance-Prophecy. For more about their work see www.callaighe.com

Sophia Fisher
Sophia Fisher is a Celebrant, hounsi bossal and 2nd degree Gardnerian witch living in Wales with her husband and West Highland White Terrier. She enjoys creative writing, performance belly-dance and sitting near her favourite apple tree. She is a member of Sosyete Gade nou Leve ('Watch us Rise' Society) headed by Houngan Hector, and is happy to be contacted by email - sophia@baronsmagic.co.uk.

Galatea
Galatea has had a life-long interest in the occult and mystical, due in part to having a parent with similar interests. Since she was a small child her passion has been Ancient Egypt. She was initiated by Alex Sanders in 1971 and has been High Priestess of her own coven for over twenty five years. For the past decade she has worked mostly in the Egyptian spiritual tradition, which informs and inspires her work in the Craft, which she interprets as a Magickal, Gnostic, Mystery tradition.

Katie Gerrard
Katie Gerrard is an urban witch living in the outskirts of London with her husband, daughter, and fat idiot cat. She has been working with the Norse practice of Seidr since the 1990's, researching and experimenting with what information is available on the historical techniques. For the past few years she has been involved in the facilitation of practical Seidr group in Central London, she has also lectured at national events on this and related subjects. When she is not doing things of a magickal persuasion she enjoys creative pursuits such as sewing, beading and making jewellery.

Kay Gillard
Kay is a psychic, witch, healer, teacher and writer who comes from a family in which many of the women have psychic gifts. She works as a full time Reiki Master Teacher and shamanic healer and much of her spare time is spent indulging in magickal pursuits and 'playing with the faeries'. She lives in South East London with her partner and two very bizarre cats. For more information and to find out about Kay's work visit www.kaygillard.com

Mariëlle Holman
Mariëlle is originally from Holland, but enchanted by the Mythology of this Island, she moved to the UK, with her four children. She became the first initiated teen witch in her own country, and now years later she has her own Coven and groups in the South-East of England. Her dance journey started with Classical Ballet and moved on to Belly Dance and trance dance, in which she performs and teaches.

Kim Huggens
Kim Huggens is a PhD student in the Ancient History department of Cardiff University. Her research interests include women in second century Christianity, religion in the Late Antique period, Graeco-Roman magic, Egyptian religion, and the Roman cult of Mithras. Her recent work has included a paper in Horns of Power, edited by Sorita D'Este, and the publication of her first Tarot deck, Sol Invictus: The God Tarot, co-authored with Nic Phillips. She is currently creating a second Tarot deck, Pistis Sophia: The Goddess Tarot, and giving regular talks and workshops around the UK on subjects such as Tarot, mythology, Paganism, Graeco-Roman magic, and Mithras. Kim works in a vetinary clinic in her spare time, plays Dungeons and Dragons, and practices Vodou.

Andrea Salgado-Reyes
Andrea Salgado-Reyes is a priestess of Artemis and Hekate, witch, trance worker and devotee of the Orixas. Her interests include classical Greece and ancient Egypt, the exploration of ancient forms of worship and indigenous traditions. She keeps busy setting up a neo-pagan and pagan community on her land in Chile, and providing space for local witches to study and practise in a neo-pagan context. Like a traditional Latin-American woman, she is devoted to her mother, cooking and gardening. Unlike one, she is also devoted to polyamory, spellwork and the full enjoyment of her own freedom. She welcomes comments and questions on her work and can be contacted by email - andreasalgado@yahoo.com

Bolina Oceanus
Bolina is a priestess of Apollo following, in part, a Reconstructionist approach to Hellenistic religious ritual. She fell in love with Apollo at an early age, when she discovered that He united the Sun, poetry and wolves, her three favourite things. Bolina works with other likeminded Hellenists in a small group honouring Apollo and the Muses, and is actively seeking to re-colonise her part of Britain for the ancient Greek gods.

Cathryn Orchard
Cathryn Orchard has been a member of Ordo Templi Orientis, an international fraternal initiatory magickal Order, since 2004 and has been working as a Priestess in that organisation for the last four years. She has performed Liber XV The Gnostic Mass, the central ceremony of O.T.O. across the world with her partner, musician and author Rodney Orpheus. Cathryn is an artist and designer currently working as a Support Worker with people with learning difficulties while studying to be an Art Psychotherapist. She lives in the Cotswolds district in the West of England.

Vivienne O'Regan
Vivienne O'Regan has been a priestess and student of the mysteries for over 35 years. She was a contributor to Voices of the Goddess: A Chorus of Sibyls (1990) edited by Caitlin Matthews and the author of The Pillar of Isis: a Practical Manual on the Mysteries of the Goddess (1993). She had written for a number of esoteric publications and worked within various esoteric groups. Vivienne O'Regan can be contacted by email- caersidiuk@yahoo.co.uk or if you wish to find out more about her work visit her website www.caersidi.net

Emily Ounsted
Emily Ounsted is a Wiccan High Priestess running an Alexandrian lineaged Coven in the London area. She is a priestess of Hekate and previously contributed to the anthology Hekate: Keys to the Crossroads under the pseudonym Amelia. She views her experiences with oracular work as part of a continuing journey towards discovery both of the self and of the gods. She is fascinated by the rich diversity of experience and practice in oracular priestesses today.

Naomi Ozaniec
Naomi Ozaniec has been studying the mysteries since she discovered the occult section of her local library at the age of ten. Since then she has written numerous books on all aspects of the Western Mystery Tradition, including The Aquarian Qabalah (2003), Chakras for Beginners (1999), The Elements of Egyptian Wisdom (1994) and Everyday Meditation (2004). She is The Director of Studies in The House of Life, an Aquarian Mystery School dedicated to the service of humanity through the Ageless Wisdom enshrined in the Hermetic Tree of Life. For more information see www.thehouseoflife.co.uk

Connia Silver
Connia Silver has been working with (and in) her dreams from a young age, and acknowledges her mother for passing on the affinity. Connia is a spiritual writer and educator who teaches a wide range of intuitive skills and Goddess mysteries. She lives with her husband and companion animals in the Sonoran Desert, where they explore the practices of organic and sustainable living. She is the founder and director of studies of In Her Name Temple and the Crossroads Lyceum, both of which provide Priestess training and other spiritual courses through home-study. Connia may be reached through the following websites: www.inhername.com and www.crlyceum.com

Caroline Tully
Caroline Tully is a student of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Melbourne, Australia, who is interested in the pre-Christian religions of the ancient Mediterranean, the demonisation of the Pagan gods after the rise of Christianity, and their re-appearance in modern mystery religions such as Witchcraft, Neo-Paganism and Ceremonial Magick.
She is a fervid article-writer, who endeavours to make her academic research accessible to a popular audience in order to contribute to the Pagan revival. Caroline has written for more than twenty international Pagan publications and contributed chapters to Practising the Witch's Craft by Douglas Ezzy (Allen and Unwin 2003); Pop! Goes the Witch by Fiona Horne (Disinformation 2004); and Celebrating the Pagan Soul by Laura Wildman (Citadel Press 2005). See her blog at http://necropolisnow.blogspot.com/

Jacqui Woodward-Smith
Jacqui Woodward-Smith is a Priestess of Avalon, trained in Glastonbury and living in London. She facilitates the group Tribe of Avalon, which meets to connect to and celebrate the ancient British Goddesses. She is passionate about connecting to the land as sacred, and about working to heal the wounds to the Sacred Feminine in all of us. She is a writer and a poet and has given many talks about the Goddess and the sacred land. She is a director of both the Glastonbury Goddess Temple and the Southwark Mysteries, a community arts organisation. She can be contacted at Avalon@pflondon.org