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Nickname Starhawk
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Starhawk is the author of 11 books on Goddess religion, earth-based spirituality, and activism, including The Spiral Dance; her picture book for young children, The Last Wild Witch; and The Earth Path, which weaves together permaculture and spirituality. Her twelfth book, The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups was published in Fall of 2011. She also directs Earth Activist Trainings, offering permaculture design courses with a grounding in spirit and a focus on organizing, and collaborates with community organizations to bring permaculture to the inner city. Together with director Donna Read Cooper, she created the documentary Permaculture: The Growing Edge, released in Fall of 2010. She is currently working with Yerba Buena Films to produce afeature film from her novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and to build earth-centered ethics and permaculture principles into the production itself. Starhawk is one of the founders of the Pagan spiritual network Reclaiming. She has lived collectively and worked collaboratively in many settings for more than three decades. She blogs at www.starhawksblog.org and her website iswww.starhawk.org.