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Revision as of 02:22, 28 May 2004 by 24.130.130.138 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Starhawk (born Miriam Samos in 1951) is a writer, activist and Witch. She is well known as a theorist of paganism; her writings are considered required reading. She is a trainer in nonviolence and direct action, and activist within the peace movement, women's movement, environmental movement, and Anti-globalization movement.
She is the author of numerous non-fiction best-selling works: The Spiral Dance (1979, 1989, 1999), Dreaming the Dark (1982, 1988, 1997), Truth or Dare (1988), Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising (2003) as well as her webwritings http://www.starhawk.org/activism/activism-writings/activism-writings.html . With Hilary Valentine she wrote The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey Into Magic, Healing and Action (2000) a resource book for Pagans. With M. Macha NightMare and Reclaiming Collective, she wrote The Pagan Book of Living and Dying (1997). Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition (1998) was co-written with Anne Hill and Diane Baker. Starhawk's fiction includes The Fifth Sacred Thing (1993), and Walking to Mercury (1997).
Films, Music, etc.: Starhawk has been consulted or contributed to the films Signs Out of Time: The Story of Archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. She participated in the Reclaiming CDs Chants: Ritual Music, and recorded the guided meditation Way to the Well.
A feminist and peace activist, she is one of the foremost voices of ecofeminism and travels widely in North America and Europe giving lectures and workshops. She lives in San Francisco, where she works with the Reclaiming tradition she helped found; this now international organizatuion offers classes, workshops, camps, and public rituals in earth-based spirituality, with the goal to "unify spirit and politics".