Mendy Knott lives in Swannanoa, North Carolina. Her work reflects her experiences as a former police officer, military veteran, and Southern preacher’s kid. She is an award-winning, screenplay writer and poet.
Maria Cristina Moroles, known now by her ceremonial name Ăguila, is an Indigenous curandera, shaman, and landyke who has lived at Santuario Arco Iris, rugged womenâs land in the Ozark Mountains near Ponca, Arkansas, since 1974. The land offers over a hundred acres of sanctuary for women and children, especially women and children of color. In 2000, she founded the Arco Iris Earth Care Project, a nonprofit that preserves 400 acres of neighboring wilderness land.
Itâs a very complex thing that Iâve taken very seriously as a sacred responsibility. Our mission now is to heal our community, our local community, our Ozark community, and our indigenous community; and to bring all the colors into sacred union again.
Diana Rivers goes from atheist to pagan while serving cakes for the Queen of Heaven.