Margaret J. Curtis

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Margaret J. "Margi" Curtis (born 1957) (MCA, Grad.Dip.Trans. Breathwork), is an Australian witch, writer, counsellor, performance artist and activist. She lives in Wollongong, Australia with her two partners and several cats. She has produced and co-edited Telmar F&SF magazine (Macquarie University, 1976-78) and Scarp literary magazine (Wollongong University, 1986-87). She holds a Master of Creative Arts (1990) focusing on the writing of Ursula Le Guin, Stephen Donaldson and Margaret Atwood and on the writing crafts of epic fantasy and poetry. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Voice of the Goddess & Other Poems (1991), and Ovum: Poems of Birth, Death and Regeneration. (2000).

Curtis is currently developing her epic fantasy series Weave, whose first volume Seed of the Whitherborn received attention at the 2004 Envision writers workshop in Qld.

Curtis has been influential in various Pagan and occult organisations, and is notable for having founded Womens Web, a Goddess-based womens' spirituality group which she has facilitated for the last sixteen years. Currently (with her partner Leigh Blackmore) she also co-facilitates Moonskin, a ritual working group based in the Illawarra in NSW. Margi and Leigh's column on matters magical appears regularly in internationally distributed magazine Spellcraft.

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