Meet The Team

Kristen was born a flower child (on the inside). In fact, she remembers communing with the flowers surrounding her PNW home as a young girl. It wasn’t until later in life when her inner flower child grew bold enough to emerge (on the outside). Kristen has loved faeries and fairy tales for as long as she can remember. She is a poet, writer, and composer with a M.M. in theory and composition. The marriage of storytelling and music guides her creative expression. Visit her at: https://www.kbdebeasi.com/

Donna is an entrepreneur and artist with a fine arts background. Recently, she expanded her artistry by launching a freelance engraving business, specializing in custom designs on wood, glass, metal, and leather. When she’s not in her studio creating, she loves escaping in the pages of a good book, the calming embrace of the beach and singing, which brings her joy and fuels her creativity. 

Visit her website at: www.ladyddesigns.net

Madeline is a graduate student at Truman State University in English and Education, having received her BA in Creative Writing. She works as a teacher, managing editor, and literary agent intern. In her spare time she enjoys traveling, reading, writing, and eating anything with copious amounts of sugar in it. Her work has appeared in journals such Three Elements Literary Journal, Tomahawk Review, and The Fairy Tale Magazine.

Kate has been a fairy tale lover since the late 1960s, when she first read an Oz book (there are many). She was immediately hooked, and nowadays, she taken up the mantle of Fairy Godmother to 21st century fairy tale lovers--especially those in Fairy Tale Magazine's Fairy Godparents Club. When Kate's not immersed in the world of fairy tales, she's a wife, mother, grandmother, gardener and music lover. She's also a certified meditation teacher.

Kelly is a poet and author whose stories and poems have appeared in Eternal Haunted Summer, Blue Heron Review, Forget-Me-Not Press, Mermaids Monthly, The Chamber Magazine, and Mothers of Enchantment: New Tales of Fairy Godmothers. She teaches literature and fairy tale courses at Central Connecticut State University.

Lissa Sloan is the author of Glass and Feathers, a dark continuation of the traditional Cinderella tale. Her fairy tale poems and short stories have appeared in The Fairy Tale Magazine, Niteblade Magazine, Corvid Queen, Three Ravens Podcast, and anthologies from World Weaver Press. Visit Lissa online at lissasloan.com, or connect on Facebook, Instagram, @lissa_sloan, or Twitter, @LissaSloan.