The Magical Writing Grimoire: Use the Word as Your Wand for Magic, Manifestation & Ritual

About Lisa Marie Basile

Lisa Marie Basile (she/her) is a poet essayist editor and chronic illness awareness advocate living in New York City. She's the founder and creative director of Luna Luna Magazine and its online community and the creator of Ritual Poetica a curiosity project dedicated to exploring the intersection of writing creativity healing and sacredness. She regularly creates dialogue and writes about intentionality and ritual accessibility creativity poetry foster care mental health family trauma healing and chronic illness. She is the author of The Magical Writing Grimoire Light Magic for Dark Times City Witches and a few poetry collections including the recent Nympholepsy which is excerpted in Best American Experimental Writing 2020. Her essays and other work can be found in The New York Times Narratively Sabat Magazine We Are Grimoire Witch Craft Magazine Refinery 29 Self Healthline Entropy On Loan From The Cosmos Chakrubs Catapult BUST Bustle and more. Her work has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes (most recently for her work in Narratively). Lisa Marie has led poetry writing and ritual workshopsat HausWitch in Salem Massachusetts; Manhattanville College; and Pace Universityand shes led ritual and writing events like Atlas Obscuras renowned Into The Veil. She is also a chronic illness advocate keeping columns at several chronic illness patient websites. She earned a master's degree in writing from The New School and studied literature and psychology as an undergraduate at Pace University. You can follow her at @lisamariebasile and @Ritual_Poetica.