Starhawk

Starhawk, whose birth name is Miriam Simos, is an American Wiccan, writer, teacher, ecofeminist, and social justice activist. Starhawk was born on June 17, 1951, in St. Paul, Minnesota. She holds a B.A. in fine arts from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.A. in psychology from Antioch West University. She lives part time in San Francisco in a collective house and part time in the woods of Sonoma County, California.

From the publication of her first book in 1979, The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, Starhawk has been central to the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. Today, she is a leading voice of the neo-pagan movement.

In The Spiral Dance, Starhawk explores the ...