Starr Goode

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Starr Goode, MA, teaches writing and literature at Santa Monica College. She is producer and moderator for the cable TV series The Goddess in Art (available on YouTube). An award-winning writer, she has been profiled for her work as a cultural commentator in such publications as the L.A. Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker. Her essay, "Adventures She Has Brought My Way" appears in the anthology Foremothers of the Women's Spirituality Movement, Elders and Visionaries. Her previous work on the Sheelas was published in ReVision: A Journal of Consciousness and Transformation, the Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, the three-volume encyclopedia Goddesses in World Culture, About Place Journal, and in The Encyclopedia of Women in World Religions: Faith and Culture across History. A recent book, The Art of Living: Falstaff, the Fool, and Dino, explores the power of wit and the importance of play. Her latest book, Sheela na gig, The Dark Goddess of Sacred Power, is published by Inner Traditions. It won the 2018 Sarasvati Award for Best Non-Fiction Book presented by the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology. Her latest essay, "The Icon of the Vulva, A Basis of Civilization," has recently been published in The Journal of Archaeomythology, Spring 2021.

 

To contact Starr Goode

email: Inner Traditions
or directly through Starr's email: starrgoode@mindspring.com

For all enquiries about speaking engagements and book signings

Please contact for Sheela na gig:
Inner Traditions
or starrgoode@mindspring.com


Please contact for The Art of Living:
starrgoode@mindspring.com