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 website: https://www.kbdebeasi.com/

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.

Madeline is a Truman State University student with literary journal experience. She is working on her Masters Degree and assisting The Fairy Tale Magazine staff in a variety of ways, including social media.