Peggy Nadramia

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Peggy Nadramia is an American magazine editor and Administrator in the Church of Satan, of which she is the current High Priestess, and in which she is known as Magistra Nadramia.

She became High Priestess on April 30, 2002, when she was appointed to the office by the previous High Priestess, Blanche Barton. From May 2001, she had served as Magistra Templi Rex of the Church [1].

Contents 1 Biography 2 Trivia 3 Quotation 4 Works 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Biography

Nadramia was born in New York City and grew up in Hell's Kitchen. In the 1970s, her parents moved her upstate in order to avoid the crime of the city. In high school, she met Peter Gilmore who introduced her to The Satanic Bible and she has considered herself a Satanist from that point on.

As a couple, Nadramia and Gilmore moved back to New York to attend college. While in graduate school in the early 1980s, they married and officially affiliated with the Church of Satan.

In 1985, Nadramia founded the horror fiction magazine Grue, which she now co-edits with her husband. The World Fantasy Awards gave Nadramia a Special Award for Grue in 1990.

Nadramia and Gilmore founded Satanic magazine The Black Flame in 1989, which soon became the de facto official Satanic periodical. Nadramia penned the introduction to the current edition of Anton LaVey's The Satanic Witch.

[edit] Trivia

• Nadramia is a fan of early to mid-twentieth century American popular music, especially vocalists like Bing Crosby and Al Jolson. She has been a big fan of DEVO, as well as classic rock like The Who, David Bowie, Dangerous Muse, The Eagles, The Doobie Brothers, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. She has expressed enthusiasm for the The Osbournes.

• Nadramia is a practitioner of hatha yoga.

[edit] Quotation

"... we will define what a Satanist is, not Bob Larson or any other outsider, Christian or otherwise. We are the first group of people in human history who have come together under that title and taken it for ourselves; we are the archivists of Satanic history and the caretakers of Satanic philosophy, and we will not have others defining, delimiting or categorizing Satanists or Satanism." —Peggy Nadramia, in The Black Flame (Volume 5, Numbers 1 & 2)

[edit] Works

• Narcopolis & Other Poems edited by Peggy Nadramia (Hell's Kitchen Productions, ISBN 0-9623286-1-8, Nov 1989); an anthology of macabre poetry with illustrations by several artists.

[edit] References

Footage of an interview with Gilmore and Nadramia for KK Magazine is included on the Church of Satan Interview Archive DVD [2].

[edit] External links

• Text of Barton's appointment of Nadramia as Magistra Templi Rex
• My Dark, Satanic Love by Magistra Nadramia
• Nadramia audio interview on Satanism Today (episode 20)
• Posts by Magistra Nadramia on viewing Satan in a real, anthropomorphic way.
• Satanism, Nazism and Fascism by Peggy Nadramia

Preceded by Blanche Barton

High Priestess of the Church of Satan 2002-present

Succeeded by Current incumbent