Authors - Auguries and Alchemy

August 24 2023

Thomas Sharpe

Thomas Sharpe was raised in an ultra conservative home at the Jersey shore, where most days he felt like he didn’t fit in. Three months after Tom and his twin brother turned 21, their father suddenly passed away from a massive heart attack. That event stretched Tom between the grief of losing a parent and the sweetness of a life of new found freedom.He started his life out of the closet journey by enrolling in cosmetology school. He graduated from the Wilfred Academy of Beauty in 1982 and went on to cut hair at people’s homes, their sick beds, and in working class salons along Routes 37 and Brick Boulevard, six to seven days a week. Tom is an avid gardener and a doting godfather. As an adult, he has kept the unrelenting Protestant work ethic he inherited while breaking most of the other rules that he considers judgments, not truths. He has learned magic and tarot and regularly finds practical ways to apply it to everyday life.

August 24 2023

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Mariette Papic

Mariette is an author and multidisciplinary artist based in writing and photography. She was born in Newark, New Jersey to immigrant parents. She was raised in a vibrant extended community that spanned her childhood home in New Jersey with frequent visits to Astoria and Jackson Heights, Queens, NY.As a bilingual child, Ms. Papic began her studies at Rutgers University, concentrating her time in French Literature studies along with Italian and numerous interdisciplinary classes that focused her mind on the philosophies of political and social currents. She abandoned her degree studies and turned towards studying at The International Center for Photography, as well as studying documentary filmmaking at the New York Film Academy, both in New York City. She went on to study with Mary Ellen Mark and Irish writer Nuala O’Faoloin among others. Mariette is the author of the 2016 non-fiction book, The Digital Nomad Manifesto, which explores bender dynamics in the context of climate and the development of quantum computers. The DNM explores pre-internet culture and its links to today’s social movements. She has performed poetry and provided installations around the United States, most notably at New Museum, Bowery Poetry Club, and at the Grace Space, all in New York City.You can find out more about her work at her website thunderandstars.com

December 8 2021

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East S.M.

East S. M. is an Appalachian Occultist, Diviner, educator, artist, performer, and now author.

A cosmic being in her own right, she was born in a small Kentucky town that sits inside a meteorite crater.

A wild past of wonderful and sometimes unspeakable experiences, and decades of empowering others to seek their own quests, has called East to share Mercy’s story in the esoteric genre of Occult fiction. Her debut novel is the first in an anthology that reimagines the Spirit world, the human condition, and the necessity of both evolution and devolution within our lifetimes.