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Q: What first sparked the idea for Ashless Sacrifice? The first spark was not a particular legend or historical ritual, but a particular kind of male character. I have always been drawn to gender-reversed stories in which the woman occupies the more active position and the man becomes the object of desire—the one who is watched, possessed, protected, or offered. I wanted to write a male protagonist who was beautiful and unblemished, with an almost sacrificial quality, and to place [...]

Q: The book engages with arctic history and older literary forms. What influenced you most here?A: Around the time I began the manuscript I was looking into the lives of the historic polar explorers. I got lost reading articles detailing the clothes they wore, tools they used, food they ate, their ships, etc. I became fascinated by the histories of the explorers themselves. I knew I wanted to write about it, but I didn’t know how exactly. This was around the [...]

First, tell us a little about yourself. What is your background, and what previous works have you published? I am a scholar and independent researcher, as well as an occult practitioner and author. My background sits at the intersection of academic study, magical practice, and imaginal immersion. I hold a PhD in initiatory literature, and I have served as Priestess of Templum Abyssi. My published works include Approaching Babalon and The Babalon Hymnal, both devotional texts addressed to the Goddess [...]

How did the process of writing Skyscraper Pantheon begin? A combination of elements, I guess. For a few years now, my partner and I have been exploring Atlanta, putting up surrealist stickers and street art, including dream accounts, magic sigils, exquisite corpse drawings, etc. We’ve also been playing a lot of surrealist games, primarily at home, but sometimes extending them into the streets. For instance, we’d play the situationist game of navigating one city with the map of another, create [...]