Raechel Anne Jolie believes in magic. She secured the deal for her memoir, Rust Belt Femme, after performing a honey spell. There’s also the fact that she’s crazy brilliant and has been writing for as long as she can remember. All things considered, I suppose.
In this second conversation with guest host, Cameron Steele, we’re TALKTALKTALKING with Raechel about astrology, witchy stuff, the writing process, and all things between.
Raechel Anne Jolie is a writer, educator, organizer, and former sex worker based in Cleveland, Ohio on Erie and Mississauga land. She holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota. Her writing has appeared in The Baffler, Bitch, Teen Vogue, In These Times, among other publications. Jolie is also the editor and co-creator of The Prison Arcana tarot zine, made in collaboration with incarcerated artists. Her memoir Rust Belt Femme received recognition in NPR's Favorite Books of 2020, was a finalist in the Heartland Bookseller's Award, and was the winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction. She is also mama to two perfect black cats.
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Cameron Steele is a writer, teacher, and tarot reader based in the Blue Ridge mountains, where she counsels clients drawing on her doctorate and divinatory training. Recent essays have been published in Gulf Coast, Barrelhouse, Brevity, and Split Lip Magazine, and her dissertation won runner-up for the Iron Horse Review/Texas Tech University Press first book prize in 2021. She also writes the popular weekly newsletter, “interruptions,” at the intersection of literature, illness, and the occult.
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