“You have a knack for letting readers smell, taste, and feel your words.” ~~Schuyler Kaufman, Editor, High Country Writer’s Journal     Gale Thorstone is the author of two books, Forever Autumn and Holy Day Meads and her nonfiction works have been published in SageWoman, Circle Sanctuary, NewWitch, Blessed Bee, The Beltane Papers and If… Journal.   She earned the 2007 Kaiser/Cole award for Journalism. Gale is a legally ordained minister, writer, mead maker and teacher living in the mountains of WV and has earned a BS and a MEd from the University of Georgia. She has been practicing the craft since the early 70's has given Workshops and done Rituals at many public and private events from the huge Starwood gathering in New York to much smaller and more private venues across the southeast.   Gale writes from her experience, something many writers do perhaps — but our subscribers have found Gale's work deeply sincere and meaningful, infinitely approachable and readable. With flashes of humor and insight peppering her stories, readers react with laughter and with tears to page after page of Gale's words, and always look forward to more of her articles.   -- Drema, If… Journal

She earned the 2007 Kaiser/Cole award for Journalism.