Margot Adler has been a priestess of Wicca since 1973 (or you can say for more than 30 years). She is the author of "Drawing Down the Moon", the classic study of contemporary Paganism and Goddess spirituality, as well as "Heretic's Heart, a Journey through Spirit and Revolution", a memoir.

She is a lecturer and workshop leader, and in her mundane life, she is the New York Bureau Chief and Correspondent for National Public Radio, where her reports air on All Things Considered and Morning Edition. She is also the host of Justice Talking, a debate show on constitutional issues.

Lilith Dorsey, B.A., M.A., hails from many different magickal traditions, including Celtic, Afro-Caribbean, and Native American spirituality. Her traditional education focused on Plant Science, Anthropology, Cinema Studies, and Fine Art at the University of R.I., New York University and the University of London, and her magickal training includes iniations in Santeria, Vodoun, and New Orleans Voodoo. Lilith Dorsey has been doing successful magick since 1991 for patrons of her business Branwen’s Pantry, and is editor/publisher of Oshun-African Magickal Quarterly , and author of the newly released Voodoo and Afro-Caribbean Paganism.

Since 1975, Lon Milo DuQuette has been a National and International governing officer of Ordo Templi Orientis, one of the most influential magickal societies of the 20th Century. His published writings have been compared to those of Israel Regardie, and he is considered one of the most widely respected members of the magick community.

He is the creator of Tarot of Ceremonial Magick which has been described by Judith Hawkins, of New Leaf Distributing as "...one of the most exciting breakthroughs in the tarot, in its arrangement and presentation of several occult systems relating to that elegant, versatile and indispensable Map of Consciousness, the Qabalah."

His book, My Life with the Spirits (from Samuel Weiser) is an autobiography and provides readers with a rare (often hilarious) peek into the bizarre life of a modern magician.

A native Californian (naturally), DuQuette was born in 1948 and claims to be the reincarnation of only himself. In his 50 years, he has been a radio disk jocky/comedian, a musician, a recording artist, a drama student, a hippie, an advertising executive, an anti-war activist, and an unemployed of all these things.

http://www.lonmilo.com/

Taylor Ellwood is the author of Pop Culture Magick, Space/Time Magic, InnerAlchemy, and Multi-Media Magic (forthcoming). He is co-author with Lupa of Kink Magic: Sex Magic Beyond Vanilla. Taylor is also the managing non-fictioneditor for Immanion Press/Megalithica Books.For more information about Taylor and his latest projects please visit http://www.thegreenwolf.com or http://teriel.livejournal.com

Philip H. Farber is the author of FUTURERITUAL: Magick for the 21st Century, a manual of neurological exploration and the forthcoming Meta-Magick: The Book of Atem (Weiser). His articles on magick and popular culture have appeared in Green Egg Magazine, The Journal of Hypnotism, Hypnosis Today, Mondo 2000, High Times, Paradigm Shift, and other unique publications and web sites. He has produced several DVD packages on magical topics, including Magick for the 21st Century, Essential Meta-Magick, and How to be a Megalomaniac. Phil is an instructor for Maybe Logic Academy (www.maybelogic.org), a Certified Hypnotist and a Licensed Trainer of Neuro-linguistic Programming, with a private practice in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley. Visit Phil at http://www.hawkridgeproductions.com.

Orion Foxwood is founder of the Foxwood Temple of the Old Religion. He is a a Witch and High Priest in Celtic/ Traditional Witchcraft and Cunningman in the Faery Seership Tradition. He is author of the book, The Faery Teachings recently published by Muse Press". Orion has taught extensively in the Old Religion, Faery Seership and the magical arts and is a noted ritualist and spiritual counselor.

Ainsley Friedberg does not remember a time when she did not have occult interests. She was initiated into the Golden Dawn in 1977 but left shortly afterwards being one of the few to hold the degree of 0:0 neophyte for over 25 years. In 1980, Ainsley discovered Wicca and self-dedicated to later start the CWPN in 1989. She received her first degree from Laurie Cabot and her 3rd and eldership from Stewart Farrar, Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone. For over 12 years, she was the owner of the Witchcraft shop "Avalon" in Monroe, and later, South Norwalk, Connecticut.

Ainsley was strongly involved in the campaign to educate the public about Wicca and appeared in many local and national newspapers and on many television and radio shows including NYC's Z100. She may be seen yearly on A&E's "Haunted History of Halloween."

In 1998 Ainsley decided to dedicate her studies to the Pagan beliefs of her own ancestry, the Slavic peoples. She is the webmistress of "Slavic Paganism & Witchcraft," the oldest Slavic Pagan site in English on the web, and the moderator of the "Leszi" list on yahoo groups, the first egroup dedicated to Slavic Heathenry.

Ainsley now resides in Stratford, Connecticut and is in the process of writing a book on the Heathen folk traditions of the Slavs.

Jerrie Hildebrand has been affiliated with various national nature-centered and Pagan organizations since 1986. She currently works with the Our Freedom Collaborative, is the Assistant Director of Lady Liberty League, current member of the local interfaith council in her city and an ordained minister with Circle Sanctuary leading an interfaith women's collective in Massachusetts. Her work and path is tied with her love and passion of transformational thinking and processes and the inquiry of what is it to be Pagan in the 21st Century. Jerrie has spoken at several national pagan gatherings and is the facilitator of the Pagan Spirit Gatherings Teen Center. As presenter at Parliament of World Religions in Barcelona, Spain, Jerrie was part of a panel that spoke to the religious freedom issues faced in the United States. She is currently working with the MA Department of Corrections on guidelines for Pagan/Wiccan inmates and is part of the team of Circle Sanctuary working on the Veterans Headstone concerns. In her regular life, if there is something called that, Jerrie is an award-winning creative director, book illustrator, workshop facilitator and owner of a graphic design and marketing studio with 30 years experience. She has mastery in working as an artist, business woman, mother, wife, community member, inspirational speaker and priestess and walking between the worlds of each.

Jennifer Hunter started practicing Wicca at 16, in the days before it was cool to be a teen Witch. Fortunately, she found acceptance from the other freaks at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she founded the school's first Pagan student organization. Jen completed her BA in English at Montclair State University, which qualified her to work in bookstores for a few years. Then she became a writer and editor, and churned out quite a lot of porn, as well as four non-fiction books: 21st Century Wicca, Wicca for Lovers, Rites of Pleasure: Sexuality in Wicca and NeoPaganism, and Magickal Judaism: Connecting Jewish and Pagan Practice. She has appeared on The View, The Howard Stern Show, and The Daily Show. Now at age 35, she still writes and edits, but is giving her Virgo nature free rein by transitioning to a career as as a professional organizer. Although she is tribally Jewish, she religiously identifies as Pagan with a dash of Wiccan flavoring. She lives in the Boston area with her six-year-old daughter.

Ronald Hutton is a Professor of History at the University of Bristol in Bristol, England. He is a leading authority on the history of the British Isles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, on ancient and medieval paganism and magic, and on the global context of witchcraft beliefs. Also the leading historian of the ritual year in Britain and of modern paganism. Some of his publications include: "Witches, Druids and King Arthur", "Shamans: Siberian Spirituality and the Western Imagination", "The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan Witchcraft", "The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain", "The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles" and many more.

Richard Kaczynski (www.richard-kaczynski.com and richard_kaczyn.livejournal.com) is the author of Perdurabo: The Life of Aleister Crowley, Perdurabo Outtakes (Blue Equinox Journal #1), and Panic in Detroit: The Magician and the Motor City (Blue Equinox Journal #2), and co-editor of The Revival of Magick and Other Essays (Oriflamme #2). He’s been a student of metaphysics and the occult since 1977 e.v., an O.T.O. member since 1987, and a lecturer on magick since 1990. Within the O.T.O., he is past Master of Blue Equinox Oasis in Detroit, an ordained Priest of E.G.C., a Certified Initiator Trainer, and a Local Body Mentor. Over the years, his writing has appeared in various magazines (High Times, The Magical Link, Neshamah, Cheth, Mezlim, Eidolon, Different Worlds) and books (Golden Dawn Sourcebook, Rebels and Devils, People of the Earth), and he was recently interviewed for the PBS documentary, Secrets of the Occult and the television show Enigma. His current projects include an edited and annotated re-issue of Crowley's Sword of Song, and the Weiser Concise Guide to Aleister Crowley.

Lupa is a twenty-something pagan and experimental magician living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and fellow author, Taylor Ellwood. She is the author of "Fang and Fur, Blood and Bone: A Primal Guide to Animal Magic" and "A Field Guide to Otherkin"; she is co-writing "Kink Magic: Sex Magic Beyond Vanilla" with Taylor. She may be found online at http://www.thegreenwolf.com and http://www.kinkmagic.com.

Tannin has studied diverse practices and paths such as Gi Gong, Shamanistic energy techniques, Gnostisism, Afro-Caribbean religions, and even a pinch of Ceremonial Magick. She has co-authored two books published through Llewelyn World Wide (Urban Primitive, October 2002 and Welcoming Hera’s Blessing: Handfasting and Wedding Rituals, December 2003) with Raven Kaldera, as well as numerous articles for Llewellyn’s various almanacs. She is also a founding member of The First Church of Asphodel in Hubbardston, MA. Her ten+ years of experience as an “occult consultant to the public” at her shop Bones and Flowers in Worcester, MA. (www.bonesandflowers.com), have given her a unique perspective on the subject of witchcraft, occultism, and Murphy’s Law.

Jane T. Sibley, Ph.D., is a traditional Norse spakone/trollkjerring, and is a specialist in Norse folklore and runes. She has taught at many Pagan events over the years. Her first book, "Norse Mythology...According to Uncle Einar," came out in 2000, and is available at her merchant tent. It's a humorous look at Odin & Co., where Thor drives a Harley and Odin operates The Valhalla Sports Bar and Grill.

Dr. Sibley has a second novel, "The Hammer of the Smith," at present in the final stage of consideration at Baen Books. This is a historical fantasy which takes place in Migration Period Norway and Denmark, with lots of magic, smithcraft lore, traditional “magic medicine," some interesting battles, and a tuxedo kitten who saves the day.

Her third book, “The Divine Thunderbolt: Missile of the Gods," has just been published, and is available at her merchant tent.

Utu is a Conjurer of the North American Voodoo tradition. His temple, the Niagara Voodoo Shrine, is located in the heart of the historic free slave quarter of St. Catharines Ontario, where the legendary Underground Railroad ended. Harriet Tubman brought hundreds of freedom seekers to St. Catharines, many were renowned bush doctors, conjurers and like Harriet Tubman herself, diviners.

The Niagara Voodoo Shrine has been sharing for many years the beautiful traditions of this Carolinian forest and swamp magik that inspires change and transformation with the help of the spirits, and the animals of the marsh.

Kirk White, M.A., L.Ac., is a healer, teacher and author. He has been a practicing Witch for over 30 years, a psychotherapist for 12 years, and a licensed oriental medical practitioner for 13 years. Past Director of the University of Vermont’s Parapsychology Program, he also founded the Green Mountain College of Oriental Medicine and the Church of the Sacred Earth: a Union of Pagan Congregations. He is now serving as founding president of Cherry Hill Seminary http://www.cherryhillseminary.org/, a professional Pagan ministry program with faculty and students worldwide, and as Co-National First Officer (President) of Covenant of the Goddess, North America's oldest and largest association of Witches and Wiccans. His skills and interests include traditional healing modalities, various magickal and spiritual traditions, and models of Pagan leadership and ministry. A contributor to "Exploring the Pagan Path: Wisdom from the Elders" (2005), he is author of "Adept Circle Magick: A Guide for the Advanced Wiccan Practitioner" (Kensington, 2006) and "Advanced Circle Magick: Essential Spells and Rituals for Every Season" to be released by Kensington Press in Fall 2007.