Phyllis Curott is a leading Wiccan priestess and founder of the Temple of Ara. She is a spiritual pioneer, an attorney, and the best-selling author of five books, which are some of the most widely published books on Witchcraft and Wicca in the world. Phyllis was named one of "The Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year" by Jane Magazine and was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Clergy and Scholars. She received the 2020 Personality of the Year Award from Kindred Spirit and the 2018 Service to Humanity Award from the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary where she teaches.

Phyllis is the only Wiccan Trustee of the Parliament of the World's Religions, serving as the Program Chair of the historic 2021 Parliament, where her invitation was accepted by Pope Francis and the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church. New York Magazine has called her teaching on Witchcraft the culture's "next big idea" and Time Magazine has published her as one of America's leading thinkers. She continues to write, teach, and lecture internationally on the embodied spiritual wisdom of Mother Earth, Nature's 'secret magic', and why the world needs Witches. www.phylliscurott.com