About Sophie Strand:
Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories.
Give her a salamander and a stone and she’ll write you a love story.
Sophie was raised by house cats, puff balls, possums, raccoons, and an opinionated, crippled goose. In every neighborhood she’s ever lived in she has been known as “the walker”. She believes strongly that all thinking happens interstitially – between beings, ideas, differences, mythical gradients.
Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine will be published by Inner Traditions in Fall 2022 and is available for pre-order.
Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions in Spring 2023.
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Books & Publications by Sophie Strand
Books
The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine. Forthcoming in 2022, published by Inner Traditions.
The Madonna Secret: an eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospel. To be published by Inner Traditions.
Links to Selected Publications:
Melt Divine Feminine into Divine Animacy
Mentorship with the More than Human World
Connective Tissue Disease as a Mycelial Metaphor
Dionysus Baby-Faced God of the Swarm, the Hive, the Vine, the Emergent Mind
The First Ode: The Problem of Setting (2016 Bard College Poetry Prize)
Fathering is a Green Slow Thing
2018 Mantra Review: Three Poems