“Not Praying to Orpheus, but praying as Orpheus,” encourages Caroline’s guest, Sophie Strand: a poet, historical-fiction writer, and essayist based in the Hudson Valley with a focus on the history of religion, environmentalism, and feminism.

She is currently selling a historical fiction novel about Miriam the Magdalene and completing a book of essays tentatively called The Flowering of the Wand: Lunar Kings, Flower Knights, Trans-species Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists. She has three chapbooks: Love Song to a Blue God (Oread Press), Those Other Flowers To Come (Dancing Girl Press), and The Approach (The Swan). Her poems have been published by www.poetry.org, Unearthed, Braided Way Magazine, Creatrix Magazine, Your Impossible Voice, The Doris, Persephone’s Daughters, and Entropy. One may continue to follow her work and poetry on  Instagram: @cosmogyny.