Catherine Yronwode

<b><a href="http://www.luckymojo.com/cat.html">Catherine "Cat" Yronwode</a></b> (b. 1947) is an American writer, editor, publisher, and teacher. A practitioner of herbalism and traditional magic, she is a founding member of the <a href="http://readersandrootworkers.org/wiki/About_the_Association_of_Independent_Readers_and_Rootworkers">Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers</a>. She has had an extensive career in the comic book industry, and coauthored <i>Women and the Comics</i> (1985), the first book on women in comics. Born and raised in California, Yronwode attended Illinois' <a href="http://shimer.edu">Shimer College</a> in the 1960s, through the school's unique <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_entrance_at_Shimer_College">early …