The people who make this journal possible are:
Editorial staff
David Bragi: Copywriter
Copywriter, Video Producer and all-around media dilettante
URL: https://d2creatives.com/l
Iria Vasquez-Paez: Copy Editor
Proof-reading, copy editor…all around great human being.
Like the Goddess she was named for, Iria is grace incarnate.
Éilis Niamh – Proofreader, Editorial Staff
Poet, philosopher, and song-writer. She is a PH.D. student at the University of Arizona where she is finishing her dissertation on virtue ethics and human flourishing in which she introduces a new virtue called Proper Interconnection which speaks to our need to live interdependent lives and live them well. When she is not dissertating, Éilis participates in Quercus, a druid seed group of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids, and writes poetry and the occasional short story for her blog, The Sound of What Happens.
Follow her at www.thesoundofwhathappens.wordpress.com
Elizabeth Spurr – Photographic Artist
Elizabeth is a photographer whose works are emerging as a force in the SF Bay Area arts community. She will be coordinating photographics images and designing our annual calendar.
Find her here: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.spurr
Special Contributor: Rose Spinne
Rose Spinne is an artist living on the beautiful Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Her work builds visual gateways to hidden realms of Dream and Spirit. “My purpose is seeing what is not easily seen and Drawing it onto paper, like a door held slightly ajar.” She was born among the forests and farmlands of south-eastern Quebec. Here began her fascination with natural materials and themes, sketching the horses she rode and the trees she climbed. Here too began her interest in myth and magic, seeking to understand things not immediately visible.
Rose’s pursuits took her to Concordia University in Montreal, where she studied psychology, education, and fine-arts technique, completing graduate studies in art therapy. Versatile in a wide range of media from sculpting, photography, and printmaking to writing and performance, her voice most often finds expression through pencil and paint. Her style shows a unique blending of forms, the subtle linking together of living things previously thought separate and unrelated. “I love line, interconnecting threads, the fluid transformation of one being into another, the deliberately wild unfurling of conundrum.”
Rose has illustrated cards, posters, cd covers, and books. Her work has been in exhibits and performances across Canada and sold internationally.
On facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rose-Spinne/131222716914744
Website: http://spiderdreaming.wix.com/faerieforest
Dr. Tzipora Katz – Associate Editor, Editorial Staff
Teacher, author, and storyteller, Tzipora brings a sense of the surreal and absurd to the staff. With over 40 years of teaching in some form and love the written and spoken word, she strives to bridge the fluid gap of creativity and clear language to the journal. Her book, Celebrating Life: Rites of Passage for All Ages is in revision with a projected finish this fall.
Tatyanna Wilkinson, Webmistress
Egeria Consulting http://www.egeriaconsulting.net/
WordPress Classes: http://wordpress4creatives.com/
Intrepid and long-suffering creatrix of web-magic.
After 20+ yrs working in the non profit world, she left to start her own business, Egeria Consulting. She am blessed to be able to make a living doing many things she is passionate about. One of the things she is passionate about is empowering women and girls. She runs women’s circles and moontime workshops. One of the other things she find *fun* is tinkering with WordPress, which she does professionally.
Lezlie A. Kinyon, Ph.D.: Editor/Owner
Ph.D. Human Science. Field of Inquiry: Utilizing the tools of the arts in human science research with a special interest in sacred and folk performance. Poet and working artist.
Academic works may be found here: https://saybrook.academia.edu/LezlieKinyon
Occasional Blog: www.lezlie1.wordpress.com
Advisory Board
Rev. Denise D. Dumars, M. A.
Adjunct Instructor at Long Beach City College and Los Angeles Harbor College.
Denise Dumars, M.A., has taught at Pepperdine University, Antioch University L.A., Long Beach Community College, Los Angeles Harbor College, and numerous other colleges and universities in the Los Angeles area. Currently the literary coordinator for the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival L.A., she is busy working on that event and on her writing. She is a widely published author of poetry, fiction, criticism, and nonfiction.
Her websites are www.DeniseDumars.com and www.DyanaAset.com
Marylyn Motherbear Scott, HPs.
Founder, Visionary Creatrix, High Priestess and Goddess-in-Chief of the Magickal Cauldron, a non-profit religious and educational organization and Mystery School, produces Goddess Gather, Two as One – God and Goddess Gather Together; the Living Mysteries of Eleusis and other events. Its motto is Personal Growth on the Ecstatic Edge. Ordained by the Church of All Worlds, the Temple of Ishtar, and the Fellowship of Isis, she is an elder Witch who brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, inspiration and creativity to her magickal work.
Fondly known as Motherbear, the poet-priestess, she is an active part of the Mendocino and Sonoma literary communities. Published in chapbook, periodicals, journals, she presents as a feature of spoken word, poetry, prose, nonfiction essay and memoir.
Motherbear offers counseling, divination sessions and facilitates Rites of Passage — Births, Blessings Ways, Weddings, Death and Dying. She offers uniquely created rituals and ceremony for occasions of personal importance as well as birthing ways, weddings, death and dying. Licensed by the State of California.
contact by email: <motherbearscott_at_mindspring(dot)com>
Linda Vonbraskat-Crowe, HPs
A living expert on Ritual Theatre and former BOD member of the much missed Magical Acts Ritual Theatre Company, Linda – known as Kitty to her friends – is a force in the SF Bay Area arts community. Also active in several cross-tradition Pagan organizations as well as the science fiction and fantasy communities, Linda can often be found volunteering at conference gatherings and festivals.
Thea Artemis Kinyon Boodhoo
Thea received a formal education in advertising, specializing in the written word. She now works primarily with paleontologists to help bring ancient worlds to life through creative projects. She is the website lead for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and the creator of CretaceousMantua.com. In her role as a Coreopsis Advisory Board member, she provides input on branding and promotion, as well as occasional writing and design.
(image “Thea Artemis Kinyon Boodhoo” by Gary R. Boodhoo 2015)
and … position open ..
Artist in Residence
An honorary position selected by the editor and advisory board with a one year tenure.
Coreopsis’ Honoree for 2015: Ivan Szendro
Ivan Szendro is a healer shaman who uses the power of myths and legends. For over 40 years, he has been contributing to the modern understanding of shamanism through his methodology of mythological shamanism. He learned his own myth from the residents of Nagygéc, a 1,000-year-old village on the border of eastern Hungary. His career is based on his insight that the myth that lives within each of us, a personal myth, can be used for healing. He calls this The Legend of You.
Past honorees….
We thank our 2013 honoree and say goodbye, wishing her well in all of her future projects. Catherine Poloynis, Emeritus, 2013 http://www.CatherinePoloynis.com
Emeritus
Rev. Donnell Miller, Ph.D., Advisory Board Member
Fri, Jan 2, 2015 … Most of you, if not all, are aware that Don had been diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer back in September. Not an easy diagnosis to handle at any age, let alone at 88. Yet, Don carried-on the best he could with what little time he knew he had left. But, unfortunately, his body gave out on New Years Eve and he passed at 1:16 P.M. at Redland’s Community Hospital. We’re all saddened by his passing, but also very grateful that we had as much time as we did to spend with him these past few months. We’re also extremely grateful for the many extraordinary friendships he has had throughout his life and especially for the emotional support you’d given him during this difficult time. He was blessed in many ways, but none greater, I believe, than the many friendships that filled his life. – Ted Miller, son.
The memorial service was held Saturday 01/17/15 University United Methodist Church
Redlands, CA 92374. Dr. Miller will be missed deeply by all who knew him.
Sara A. Kass, Ph.D.: Author Liaison
Editor: Managing Editor, The New Existentialists at Saybrook University. http://www.saybrook.edu/newexistentialists/
Creative, great person.
Dr. Reba Wissner. Music Editor and Guest Editor Spring/Summer 2013. Musing on Euterpe: Electric and Acoustic Music of Our Times (Vol. 2, No. 4 Spring Summer 2013)
http://coreopsis.org/table-of-contents-spring-summer-2013/