Sabina Magliocco, Ph.D., folklorist and Professor of Anthropology at Cal State - Northridge, grew up in Italy and the United States. She has published on witchcraft and Neo-Paganism in Europe and the United States, religion, folklore, foodways, and festival. Her books include Witching culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America (2004), Neo-Pagan Sacred Art & Altars (2001), and The Two Madonnas: the Politics of Festival in a Sardinian Community (1993, 2005). A recipient of Guggenheim, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright and Hewlett fellowships, she is an honorary Fellow of the American Folklore Society. Her non-academic interests include music (she plays guitar and banjo), cooking, gardening and animal welfare.