M. Macha NightMare, Priestess & Witch, is an
author, teacher and ritualist, with a penchant for collaboration. An
initiate, and among the founders of, Reclaiming Tradition
Witchcraft, as well as Faery/Feri Tradition, Macha has held Elder
and ministerial credentials through The Covenant of the Goddess (CoG)
since 1981. She also is an ordained minister of the Communitarian
Church in Vermont. Her latest book, Pagan Pride: Honoring the Craft
and Culture of Earth and Goddess, is an exploration of new,
reclaimed, and reconstructed Pagan paths, and helps us appreciate
the accomplishments of our foreparents, and their contributions to
culture and civilization as we know it. She is also the author of
Witchcraft and the Web: Weaving Pagan Traditions Online, and
co-author, with Starhawk, of The Pagan Book of Living and Dying.
Currently she chairs the Public Ministry Department of Cherry Hill
Seminary. We are honored that she is Keeper of the Light of Pagan
Festival 2005: Weaving Traditions.