Kurr, Ryan: - Ryan Kurr is an author, pastry chef, and mystic practitioner. His debut memoir, Sugar Burn: The Not So Hot Side of the Sweet Kitchen was released in 2015. His freelance work on spiritual and metaphysical witchcraft has been published by Witches Magazine. Sage, Smoke & Fire is the first novel in the Esoteric Alchemy series. He currently lives in New Orleans.