About

Laurie Lovekraft is a ritualist, performer with more than 30 years experience as well as a writer/copyeditor . She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Southern California’s Department of Religious Studies and a contributor to the Huffington Post’s Religion section. Laurie was interviewed for the book Modern Pagans: an Investigation of Contemporary Ritual by John Sulak and V. Vale (RE/Search Publications) and contributed to Irisanya Moon’s Honoring the Wild: Reclaiming Witchcraft and Environmental Activism (Moon Books).

A devotee of the dark fantasy genre with a sharp eye for the unsettling, Laurie is the copyeditor for award-winning indie horror film Director & Screenwriter Todd Nunes and his Slasher Universe book series. The series includes: Catholic Schoolgirls vs. Inbreeds, Death Ward 13, The Duke, The Slasher Universe Companion Novel: The Trophy Hunter Files: Short Horror Stories, and the preview book Everybody Hates Sister Lucy. Laurie contributed to Pat Califia and Drew Campbell’s book Bitch Goddess: The Spiritual Path of the Dominant Woman (Greenery Press) and was magical consultant and copyeditor of Teen Earth Magic: An Empowerment Workbook (Reclaiming Press).

Laurie's background includes the Reclaiming Tradition, Wicca, Thelema, Feri Tradition, Tibetan Buddhism, and western herbalism. She has taught and/or performed at the Starwood Festival, PantheaCon, the Conference on Current Pagan Studies, Pantheon Foundation’s Pagan Activism Conference, Burning Man, Milk & Honey Store, The Green Man, and the Women’s Goddess Festival. As a musician, she studied North Indian Classical vocal music with Shabda Kahn, plays the doumbek, djimbe, frame drum, bodhran and guitar, and recorded with Sharon Knight, Robin Silver, Rachel Tree, Tim Gennert, and Sequoia Records' Steve Gordon.

A graduate of the Berkeley Psychic Institute’s Women’s Clairvoyant program, Laurie was a founding member of the Crescent Hellions, a Northern California public ritual collective and coven with Sam Webster, Tara Webster, Winter, and Sharon Knight. She also co-founded Reclaiming Los Angeles (affiliated with the Reclaiming Tradition), Redwood Magic Family Camp, and produced Starhawk‘s Southern California Spiral Dance ritual for five years.