Foreword / by Pam Grossman
Emily Brontë: watcher off the moors, fantasy, and cruel romance
Octavia Butler: sower of strange seeds, species, and the future
Shirley Jackson: witch of villages, horrors, and omens
Eileen Chang: enchantress of bitter love, treachery, and jewels
Sylvia Plath: fury of motherhood, marriage, and the moon
Toni Morrison: queen of miracles, generations, and memory
Anna Akhmatova: koldunya of winter, endurance, and willows
Joy Harjo: cosmic traveller of crows, horses, and survival
Flannery O'Connor: seer of peacocks, weird country people, and glass eyes
Sappho: siren of the lyre, honey, and ruins
Forugh Farrokhzad: rebel of sensual love, green gardens, and perfume
Emily Dickinson: specter of windows, flies, and the unexpected
Audre Lorde: warrior witch of otherness, bodies electric, and sisterhood
Angela Carter: fairy godmother of bloody tales, the circus, and mirrors
Virginia Woolf: guardian of the waters, the porcelain, and the lexicon
Sandra Cisneros: hechicera de los nombres, las casas, y la soledad
Charlotte Perkins Gilman: soothsayer of utopias, creeping women, and evil wallpaper
Jamaica Kincaid: sorceress of islands, venom, and histories
Anne Carson: high priestess of scholars, volcanoes, and eros
Leslie Marmon Silko: storyteller of rattlesnakes, turquoise, and the sacred desert
Alejandra Pizarnik: fantasma of silence, death, and lilacs
Mirabai: dakini of holy ecstasy, the Dark One, and ankle bells
Anaïs Nin: undine of introspection, opulent dreams, and voyages
Gertrude Stein: madame of roses, geometry, and repetition
Yumiko Kurahashi: sibyl of masks, extraterrestrial eggs, and twisted fantasies
Agatha Christie: Grand Dame of trickery, murder, and teatime
Janet Frame: hermit of hospitals, belonging, and lost souls
María Sabina: shaman of dew, hummingbirds, and mushroom language
Mary Shelley: alchymist of monsters, children, the living and the dead
Zora Neale Hurston: conjurer of hurricanes, zombies, and tall tales.
