Calliope's Magic Garden
Welcome
🚧 We're still under construction 🚧
I'm Greg, or Calliope, a writer, diviner, and teacher.
My essays range from 18th century gothic fiction to contemporary animist magical practice. I teach English composition and postmodernism in comparative humanities.
I earned my phd in 2013, focusing on early science fiction and evolutionary theory.
I've been writing since I was a teenager, though it wasn't necessarily good back then. I want this site to be a place where I can write, no matter what happens. It might be a "slow blog," it might be about several topics at once, but it's where I want to be, and I want you to enjoy being here too.
I'm trans and nonbinary. I'm feeling out "demigirl" at the moment, but if that sticks I'm a bearded demigirl like at the old circuses or something. That's a real thing, people believe "bearded ladies" were probably trans women, at least a lot of them, just trying to live where and how they could. At any rate, I have no desire to get rid of the name my parents gave me, but also mostly people call me Callie, from Calliope, nowadays. There's a funny story about that.
I'm available for tarot readings, as of November 1, 2024. Yay!
The first Rotator submission period is CLOSED. Watch this space for more news on the issue and future submissions!
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