About Me

Deborah LippDeborah Lipp’s most recent books include Bending the Binary: Polarity Magic in a Nonbinary World and Magical Power for Beginners. Her earlier works include: Tarot Interactions, The Study of Witchcraft, The Elements of Ritual, Merry Meet Again, and The Ultimate James Bond Fan Book. One of these things is not like the other.

Deborah has been teaching Wicca, magic, and the occult for over 30 years. She became a Witch and High Priestess in the 1980s, as an initiate of the Gardnerian tradition of Wicca. She’s been published in many Pagan publications, including newWitch, The Llewellyn Magical Almanac, Pangaia, and Green Egg, and has lectured on Pagan and occult topics on three continents.

As an active “out of the closet” member of the Pagan community, Deborah has appeared in various media discussing Wicca, including Coast-to-Coast radio, an A&E documentary (Ancient Mysteries: Witchcraft in America), television talk shows, and the New York Times.

As a pop culture writer, she’s perhaps best known as the co-founder of Basket of Kisses, the premiere Mad Men blog. She is also a contributor to Mad Men Carousel by Matthew Zoller Seitz.

In “real life” Deborah is a systems specialist in legal technology. She lives with her spouse Melissa and an assortment of cats in Jersey City, NJ, three blocks from a really great view of Freedom Tower.  Deborah reads and teaches Tarot, solves and designs puzzles, watches old movies, hand-paints furniture, and dabbles in numerous handcrafts.

Deborah is slated for a thrilling 2023, with a total of four* books forthcoming. Bending the Binary is out now! The Way of Four Special Edition is available for preorder, and more announcements are forthcoming.

*More if you count the special editions separately.

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