About the Author:
Michael R. Gorman, MA, is a poet, writer, artist, musician, Celtic scholar, and mystic who holds an AA in art, a BA in Theater Arts/English, and an MA in Playwriting. He is the author of the 1998 Lambda Literary Award winning, innovative biography, The Empress Is A Man: Stories From the Life of Jose Sarria. Years ago he won a poetry contest and was declared The Poet Laureate of Lavender Heights, the Midtown neighborhood of his beloved City of Trees, Sacramento, California, and the title stuck. He is a founding board member of The Chrysalis Institute, Inc., a non-profit dedicated to exploring green living and the lifestyles and philosophies that are compatible with such living. He was the founder and Executive Director for a decade of The Sacramento Grove of the Oak, Inc. a non-profit focused on exploring and teaching Celtic philosophy, culture, and spirituality. He is now the Executive Director and founder of The Five Rivers Bardic Arts Collective, an arts group created under the Chrysalis Institute to encourage the arts in the traditional, bardic sense of being essential for healthy culture, community, and education. Five Rivers particularly supports those artists, musicians, writers, and performers who explore the innovative fringes of their craft and sometimes make conventional, business centered arts outlets nervous, and who seek to make their dedication to the arts the center of their work and lives. Five Rivers believes that giving artists the financial support they deserve and making the arts available to all regardless of income are goals that are not mutually exclusive. The group sees its precedent in Celtic cultural history. Mr. Gorman is also a teacher of the earth centered philosophy and spirituality of the Celtic peoples, and in 2004 led the first publicly announced and public Druid ritual on Ireland’s Sacred Hill of Tara in modern times. He lives in the attic of a downtown Victorian house in California’s capital city, a house that he jokes is becoming “Bohemia Central” in the Sacramento’s central neighborhoods. His large urban yard has an organic garden, a hanging fire cauldron, a round grove of trees, and a glen dedicated to the faeries in whom he says he very much believes. He is currently working on the second volume of the Celtic Philosopher's Stone, and a project on the life of Irish revolutionary, poet, and mystic Ella Young.
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