Taisia Kitaiskaia is the author of The Nightgown & Other Poems, Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles, and Poetic Remedies for Troubled Times from Ask Baba Yaga. She holds an MFA from the James A. Michener Center for Writers and has published poetry in journals such as Crazyhorse, Guernica, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and the Fairy Tale Review. She lives in Austin, Texas.
Katy Horan is an illustrator and fine artist who channels the Witch archetype through her drawings and paintings of Appalachian granny witches, full moon ceremonies, and strange folk magic. Her work has been exhibited throughout North America and featured in anthologies such as Beasts! (Fantagraphics), The Exquisite Book (Chronicle), and Dark Inspiration (Victionary). She lives in Austin, Texas.
"Literary Witches is a kaleidoscopic grimoire that reveals our
beloved literary craftswomen as the powerful witches we know them
to be. Katy Horan's resplendent illustrations pulse with primal
magic and are the kindling that set Taisia Kitaiskaia's gripping,
exquisitely crafted words ablaze. This collaboration will not only
inspire you to dig deeper into transportive works of fiction and
poetry, but to access your inner creatrix. Above all, Literary
Witches is a call to action to become the witch who writes her own
story and wills it into the world."―Kristen J. Sollée, author of
Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive
"Literary Witches is itself an act of witchcraft, a spellbook to
wake the living and the dead. Taisia Kitaiskaia and Katy Horan have
conjured lucid, intuitive, psychoactive visions of how these
brilliant women writers have inhabited space and time.
Transformative, revivifying, gorgeous, unsettling, and intensely
moving, this book is a volume of poetry, miniature encyclopedia,
and twenty-first-century illuminated manuscript all at once. I'll
treasure this book like a lucky object and return to it whenever I
need courage, or mischief, or beauty, or permission."―Jia
Tolentino, writer for The New Yorker online
"Gorgeous illustrations accompany profiles of female writers from
every genre, identity and era conceivable. As necessary a project
as I can imagine in this day and age, this is art, poetry and
history marshaled together in tremendous, joyful
celebration."―Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other
Parties, writing for NPR's Guide to 2017's Great Reads
"Horan's beautiful, ominous illustrations combined with
Kitaiskaia's juicy author highlights leave the reader wanting more.
Together they cast an encouraging, powerful, feminine spell of
honor & inspiration."―Faythe Levine, curator, filmmaker, and
author
"Part portal into the superpowers of irreverent female literary
heroines and part illustrated almanac of fun facts dispatched
through the lens of the ultimate mystical female archetype,
Literary Witches is at the same time enormously enjoyable, rich in
information, and visually brilliant."―Lisa Congdon, artist,
illustrator, and author
"There's something intoxicating about imagining your favorite
female writers as having spiritual powers."
--Bookpage
"What a pleasure to read this ode to women writers whose works
enchant, mystify, consume, and ensnare. Refreshingly global,
covering authors across time, ethnicity, class, sensibility,
religion, and aesthetic, Literary Witches successfully weaves
together the personal, the political, and the heretical. Sometimes
quiet and contemplative, other times whimsical and humorous, and
always with an undercurrent of frantic, gnashing violence, this
book is a dazzling tribute to the women who've conjured our
cultural world."―Rivers Solomon, Afrofuturist and author of An
Unkindness of Ghosts
"Wondrous...haunting... vibrant. A lovely compendium of
impressionistic sketches, fusing biographical facts with flights of
the invocational imagination."--Brain Pickings
"Literary Witches pulls together the witchiest women writers
(including Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Octavia E. Butler, Sandra
Cisneros, and Flannery O'Connor) in one book with reading
recommendations and gorgeous portraits of each."--Bitch
"A treasure."--New York Journal of Books
"Kitaiskaia crafts mythological identities for each author in this
wonderfully broad collection spanning Emily Dickinson to Octavia
Butler to Sappho and Mirabai, each illustrated by Katy Horan and
elevating witches from warty Halloween decorations to visionary and
inspirational literary icons."--Shelf Awareness
"Kitaiskaia's visions are delightfully uncanny... Literary Witches:
A Celebration of Magical Women Writers is a compendium of bookish
saints, lavishly and bodily portrayed by Horan."--Times Literary
Supplement (UK)
"Perfect for readers, writers, and coven
members."--HelloGiggles
"The perfect gift for the nasty woman in your haunted
house."--Washington Post
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