Backwoods Witchcraft

While Jake Richards doesn't hold initiations, titles, or degrees, he clearly does hold his Appalachian heritage close to his blood and bones. He has practiced Appalachian folk magic for almost a decade and teaches classes on the subject in Jonesborough, Tennessee, where he owns Little Chicago Conjure, a supplier of Appalachian folk magic supplies and ingredients.

Ian Andrews had a split childhood growing up in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands. He still maintains citizenship in both the US and UK and travels between the two as often as possible while living primarily in Alabama. He is a lover of football- both American football and the football known in the US as soccer. As a young man Ian spent his summers working with elementary-aged children at Camp Sumatanga in Alabama, where he was given the job of telling stories around the campfire. This ignited a love of storytelling which he continues to feed in many forms, including audiobook narration, writing, and broadcasting. A father of two boys, he is focused on giving them a great start in life and once they are "out in the wild," he and his wife plan to explore as many places on Earth as they can, starting with the warm, sandy places that have more-than-adequate supplies of fancy drinks with umbrellas.