Maura Pellettieri is a writer, editor, and artist. She teaches ecopoetics and provides editorial guidance to other creatives. She is the founding editor of Crystal and Flame, an experimental art writing journal.

Maura’s writing can be found in The Kenyon Review, Tyger Quarterly, Conjunctions, On the Seawall, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, and others. She has given art talks and offered public rituals and meditations at the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Contemporary Art Museum-St. Louis, and other venues. She received her MFA in Writing from Washington University in St. Louis.

She is a kohenet (traditional hebrew ceremonialist) and practices the matrilineal witch-arts of the mechashefa (she who holds counsel with the plant world). She channels pre-rabbinic Judaic wisdom to write and teach about the recovery of human intimacy with Earth. She also writes about art and film. She is from and belongs to the places who have raised and adopted her in diaspora, especially Lenapehoking, Ohlone, Miwok, Osage, and Pocumtuc territories, and the Salish islands and sea. She is currently researching problems of post-diasporic existence in the holy land and participating in dreaming collective repair. She lives in Northern California.