Raven Grimassi is a Neo-Pagan scholar and award-winning author of over twelve books on Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neo-Paganism. He is a member of the American Folk Lore Society and is co-founder and co-director of the College of the Crossroads.

Raven's background includes training in the Rosicrucian Order as well as the study of the Kabbalah through the First Temple of Tifareth under Lady Sara Cunningham. His early magical career began in the late 1960s and involved the study of works by Franz Bardon, Eliphas Levi, William Barrett, Dion Fortune, William Gray, William Butler, and Israel Regardie.

Today Raven is the directing Elder of the tradition of Aridian Witchcraft, and together with his wife Stephanie Taylor he is developing a complete teaching system known as Ash, Birch and Willow. This system is the culmination of over 35 years of study and practice in the magical and spiritual traditions of the indigenous people of pre-Christian Europe.

Stephanie Taylor has been a Witch at heart for all of her life, and a tarot reader and spiritual counselor for over fifteen years. A Third Degree initiate of both the Italian Witchcraft Tradition and in the Irish Celtic Wiccan Tradition, she is also a minister of the First Celtic Wiccan Church.

A sought out professional in her craft and an expert in her field, she has appeared in several discussion panels related to Witchcraft and on regional news media.

Currently a teacher and co-director of the College of the Crossroads, a Mystery School dedicated to preserving and passing on the Old Ways, Stephanie makes her home in southern California with her partner, scholar and writer Raven Grimassi.

<i>A Traveler's Guide to the Well Worn Path</i> is her first book.

Mickie Mueller (Missouri) follows an earth-based spiritual path, and is a Pagan spiritual artist. Her work is a combination of colored pencil and acrylic wash that is magically infused with herbs corresponding with the subject she is portraying. Mueller's spiritual artwork has appeared internationally on magazine covers and can be seen on her online art galleries.

A Reiki Master and teacher in the Usui Shiki Royoho Tradition, she also enjoys writing and speaking on many topics of art and magic. Mueller is a member of Greenwood Circle, a women's Natural Magic circle in the St. Louis area, and M.A.F.I.A., a group of Midwest fantasy/sci fi artists. She received the "Best Fantasy Artist" award at the 2006 ShowMeCon.

She is the illustrator of The Well Worn Path divinational deck created by authors Raven Grimassi and Stephanie Taylor.