Mago Books is committed to the cause of Goddess feminist activism/Magoism as a way of restoring the power of self-healing/awakening/redeeming in women and all beings in WE.
Mago Books publishes books and multimedia that promote the consciousness of the Great Goddess Mago and re-store the primordial connection among peoples and species. Forthcoming books include Dr. Helen Hwang’s trilogy on Mago, the Great Goddess.
Mago Books is an indie publisher founded to support its sister non-profit branches of The Mago Work, including Mago Academy, Return to Mago E-Magazine, Gynapedia: Mago Wickedary of Goddess Feminism, Activism and Spirituality, Spiral Journey in the Cosmic Mother, and Mago Pool Circle, all of which are created and operated by the principle of Maternal Gift Economy.
Mago Books mailing address: 785 Melody Ln, Lytle Creek California 92358, USA.
Contact email: return2mago@gmail.com
Publisher and Co-creator: Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Co-creator: Mary Ann Beavis, Ph.D.
Publishing Office Manager and Copy-editor Representative: Mr. Matthew Kim Hagen (mkimhagen@gmail.com)
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
Co-creator, Publisher and Copy-editor
Helen Hye-Sook Hwang (Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University), the co-founder of The Mago Work, is scholar, activist, and advocate of Magoism, the Way of the Great Mother. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Religion with emphasis on Feminist Studies from Claremont Graduate University, CA. She also studied toward an MA degree in East Asian Studies at UCLA, CA. Hwang has taught for universities in California and Missouri, U.S.A. Since 2012, Dr. Hwang has founded and directed The Mago Work whose branches include the Return to Mago E-Magazine (http://magoism.net), Mago Academy (http://magoacademy.org), and Mago Books (https://www.magobooks.com). She also co-founded Gynapedia (https://gynapedia.magoacademy.org) and Mago Pool Circle (https://mpc.magoacademy.org) to broaden The Mago Work. She co-edited and published the She Rises trilogy series (2015, 2016, and 2019) as well as Celebrating Seasons of the Goddess (Mago Books, 2017). Also authored The Mago Way: Re-discovering Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia (Mago Books, 2015), Mago Almanac: 13 Month 28 Day Calendar annually since 2018, and The Budoji Workbook series since 2020.
Mary Ann Beavis, Ph.D.
Co-creator and Copy-editor
Mary Ann Beavis (Ph.D., Cambridge University) is Professor Emerita of Religion and Culture at St. Thomas More College, the University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Canada). Her areas of specialization include Christian Origins, Feminist Biblical Interpretation, and Women and Religion. The courses she teaches include “Goddesses in Myth and History,” and her current research project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada, is a study of women who blend Goddess Spirituality and Christianity. Her books include Mark’s Audience, Jesus and Utopia, Mark (Paideia Commentaries), and Hebrews (Wisdom Commentaries), and two edited volumes, The Lost Coin: Parables of Women, Work and Wisdom, and Feminist Theology with a Canadian Accent. She is the author of many peer-reviewed articles, five of which reflect her current interest in the Mary Magdalene/Mary of Bethany tradition.
Kaalii Cargill
Co-creator and Copy-editor
Kaalii Cargill, author of DON’T TAKE IT LYING DOWN: LIFE ACCORDING TO THE GODDESS, lives and works in Melbourne, Australia. She has been involved in women’s consciousness raising groups, home birth, attachment parenting, home and parent-run schooling, and she co-developed Soul Centred Psychotherapy, a therapeutic modality based on the feminine principle. Kaalii has worked extensively in sacred ritual space and currently runs ongoing dream groups. Kaalii inherits a sense of mystery from Calabrese, ‘strega’ grandmothers and a healthy resistance to enculturation from her Romany ancestors. Kaalii’s latest novel, DAUGHTERS OF TIME, is interwoven with archaeological, historical, and mythological details that reveal the ancient world. It follows a line of daughters through ancient Sumer, Egypt, and Jerusalem, and into the modern world, as they carry the memory of the Goddess through time and across continents to the present day where three women come together to save the world from environmental catastrophe. For more, see here.
Matthew Kim Hagen
Publishing Office Manage and Copy-editor Representative
Mr. Hagen has served as copy-editor for Mago Books since 2015. His meticulous proofreading and acute editorial suggestions prove invaluable for Mago Books publications. His specialty was in the 19th century English Literature and interdisciplinary works. Hagen earned M.A. in English Literature from Claremont Graduate University and almost completed his Ph.D. requirements in English Literature. He has taught English literature and English composition for several universities in Southern California including University of La Verne and Chaffey College for the last two decades.
Rosemary Mattingley
Copy-editor
Rosemary returned to Australia 10 years ago after 24 years of study, work and travel abroad. She received a M.Ed. in Japan, worked at the international Girl Guide centre in India, taught at a primary school in north-west Pakistan, and was a Japanese-speaking tourist guide and co-facilitator for the Quaker Alternatives to Violence Project in South Africa. She now works as an editor, Japanese interpreter, peace and interfaith activist, bridge-builder, and intuitive massage therapist.
Rosemary is the Admin Editor for the Return to Mago E-Magazine and copy-editor for Mago Books. Her blog is: nur810.wordpress.com
Wendy Stiver
Copy-editor
Wendy Stiver OSB Obl., RN, CCM, BSN, MA has been a Registered Nurse since 1981. She is a Nurse Educator/Consultant with Anderson Continuing Education, and is writing a continuing education course on human trafficking because nurses have a vital role to play in recognizing assisting victims. Wendy has also written on the Opioid Crisis and Pain Management. She is a certified case manager, earned her BSN for the University of the State of New York. While working as a nurse, Wendy also studied classical piano, played in a variety of professional venues, and completed musicological studies in 1991 at USC with a thesis exploring the Images of the Female Divine in the Hymn Texts of the Shakers. She also studied gender studies with Prof. Lois Banner and Prof. Elinor Acampo at USC. Wendy taught for colleges and university in California, has served as a reviewer for the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, and published Stress Management in the late 1990s. A Benedictine Oblate of St. Brigid of Kildare Monastery, Wendy is also a Mago Scholar for Mago Academy. (http://www.magoacademy.org).
Christine Courtade Hirsch, Ph. D.
Circle of Editorial Collectives
Department of Communication Studies, SUNY Oswego
Chris is an associate professor in the department of Communication Studies at a state school. Her undergraduate degree was in English and Communication Arts, her MA in Organizational Communication, and her PhD in Rhetoric, where she studied feminism, domestic violence, and how stories make arguments and change society. She is, heart and soul, a teacher, which means she is a lifelong learner, anxious to learn about the Craft.
Deanne Quarrie. D. Min.
Circle of Editorial Collectives
Deanne Quarrie has served as a Priestess of the Goddess for thirty years. She is the author of five books and the founder of the Apple Branch – A Dianic Tradition where she teaches courses in Feminist Dianic Witchcraft, Northern European Witchcraft and Druidism. She has recently started a program for “women of age”, called the Wisdom Path. In each program, she mentors those who wish to serve others in their communities as priestesses. Those she mentors are enrolled in the Apple Branch Seminary where they may earn advanced degrees. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Ocean Seminary College, a division of Augustus University, and is the founder of Global Goddess, a worldwide organization which began in 2002 and is open to all women who honor some form of the divine feminine and where they love to say, “Goddess Women helping women worldwide.” She publishes the Global Goddess Oracle that has been published online since 2003. She is passionate about books, writing, gardening, her beautiful great-grandchildren and life!
Nicole Shaw
Circle of Editors Collectives
My life purpose is creating deeper awareness. This is what motivates me and is the thread that weaves through my artwork, writing, activism, organic farming, advocating for local food production, founding groups and organizations (such as the Bowen Road Farmers’ Market and Nanaimo WomanShare), and living as lightly and as sustainably as I can on the earth.
- Board member of the Coombs Farmers’ Institute
• Founder of Nanaimo WomanShare, a women’s time barter group
• Published Synergy Magazine for 10 years
• Coordinator for three annual tradeshows: Green Solutions
• She and partner, Dirk Becker, recognized in 2009 as Nanaimo’s Top 20 Most Powerful People (surely they mean “influential”?)
• Co-host of “Heart and Mind: Tools for Change” radio talk show
• She and Dirk farm organic vegetables
Trista Hendren
Planning Committee Advisor
Trista Hendren is a Certified Coach with Imagine a Woman International and author of The Girl God. She lives between Portland, Oregon with her kids and Bergen, Norway with her husband. For more, see here.
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