Outdoor Book Award winner, and her freelance work can be found in various anthologies, travel guides, and humor magazines. She studied anthropology and Arabic at UC Berkeley, and can often be caught moonlighting in Silicon Valley’s start-up land, or producing the occasional podcast. She was born and raised in Northern California.
Helmuth's new book is The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft.
At LitHub she tagged seven notable books on modern witchcraft, including:
Lorraine Monteagut, Brujas: The Power and Magic of Witches of ColorRead about the other entries on the list.
For years, the Witchcraft landscape in the United States was dominated by Wicca and European-sourced magic (at least, that’s what was being written about). Monteagut’s book is a fresh and welcome overview of the burgeoning Brujeria movement in the United States. She offers us interviews and stories from the scene’s movers and shakers: their dreams, their problems, their opinions, what got them to where they are now.
At the same the book acts as a potent, page-turning memoir, where Monteagut dives deep into her own complicated relationships with her ancestors, internal racial tensions, and what it means to be a Witch and an immigrant on colonized land. In a world of shadow work journals, this book is a flashlight for when you get stuck in the dark. It is deeply scholastic and painstakingly researched but remains unwaveringly compassionate and accessible to the average reader. I’m pretty sure I cried at least four times. Whether you are a Witch of color, or not, this book is a life-changing read.
--Marshal Zeringue
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