About Ashleen O'Gaea

Ashleen O’Gaea (oh-jee-uh) has been a writer since forever, and a Wiccan priestess since 1986 – and there’s a bit of an overlap there.

Sure, she’s been writing novels since 2010, which is why there are so many in her catalog, but before that...

For more than thirty years, from June of 1988, she was deeply involved in Tucson’s Pagan community. She was a co-founder of both the Tucson Area Wiccan-Pagan Network (1988-2020) and Mother Earth Ministries-ATC (2000-present). She wrote many of the dozens of flyers and brochures MEM offers about Wicca, Ásatrú, and Druidry; she co-authored Enchantment Encumbered, a Book of Shadows for Pagan inmates, now authorized and popular in prison facilities in all fifty states.

For a couple of decades she wrote non-fiction about Wicca, starting with the ground-breaking Family Wicca Book. Her most recent non-fiction, written with her husband-high priest Canyondancer, is In the Shadows of Adventure, about the Tradition of Wicca she and ’dancer developed.

For those interested in the beliefs and practices that ground her authentic portrayal of Wicca, she offers a general overview here: Just Curious About Wicca (PDF)

Not all her novels are about Wicca, either. Her genres range from magical realism to epic fantasy, from mystery to romance, and from sci-fi to short stories and poetry. She aims for authenticity in her writing, and she doesn’t shy from
Serious Issues.

When she’s not writing, she enjoys camping, catering to her Westies, aptly named Wee Dram and Islay (eye-luh), watching TV, and reimagining her front and back gardens. Oh, and she takes her whisky neat.