With the start of the new year, No Unsacred Place is thrilled to welcome two new writers to the staff: Lupa, and Eli Effinger-Weintraub!
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Lupa is a (neo)shaman, pagan author, dead critter artist, and wannabe polymath living in Portland, OR. When she isn’t immersed in creativity-fueled self-employment, she’s either hiding in the woods somewhere, figuring out how to use her MA in Counseling Psychology for the forces of good, or indulging in Nintendo-circa-1985. She’s all over the place online, including The Green Wolf, Pagan Book Reviews, and Antler Runes.
Lupa will be writing the newly re-envisioned Earthly Rites column here on No Unsacred Place, exploring themes of environmentalism and nature spirituality in ritual and liturgy within a Pagan context as well as sharing her expertise and personal experience in Therioshamanism, totemism, shamanism and ecopsychology.
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Eli Effinger-Weintraub practices naturalistic Reclaiming-tradition hearthcraft in the Twin Cities watershed. She plants her beliefs and practices in the Earth and her butt on a bicycle saddle. She writes plays, essays, and short fiction (especially of the steampunk variety) and is attempting to wrestle a novel into submission. Previous works have appeared in Witches & Pagans Magazine, Circle Magazine, and Steampunk Tales, as well as at the Clarion Foundation blog, I’m From Driftwood, and Humanistic Paganism. Eli earns her daily bread as a comma wrangler. She shares her life and art with her wife, visual artist Leora Effinger-Weintraub, and two buffalo disguised as cats. Check out Eli’s corner of the Internet: Back Booth.
Eli has already graced the pages of No Unsacred Place as a guest writer with her piece “Bee and Orchid.” In her new column, Restorying the Sacred, she’ll be exploring the process of re-storying and how it can help Pagans today connect with their own time and place by honoring the ancient myths of the ancestors and cultivating a new corpus of tales that reflect a modern scientific understanding of the world.
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Welcome to the NUP team, Lupa and Eli!
Looking forward to reading your essays here! Welcome!
Thanks, meical. I’m kinda looking forward to reading them, myself.
Thank you for the warm welcome
Welcome! As the tech coordinator for the PNC overall, if either of you need any help, let me know!
Been trying to get back to the computer all day to say thank you for letting me know this! If I get confuzzled you’ll hear about it
It’s a joy and a privilege to be here; I’ve loved reading NUP for a good long while, and I’m incredibly pleased to be able to contribute to it! Thank you for the opportunity–and it appears I am in excellent company in my new-ness
::waves:: Lupa! Hi! So excited to see we’re coming aboard together.
Likewise–looking forward to your writing here, and glad to be introduced to others of yours
That is great news for the readers, and for both of you! Congrats, Lupa and Eli!
Thanks so much, Elysia. I’ll try to do Minnesota proud!