Siobhan Houston

Dr. Siobhan Houston graduated summa cum laude with an honors BA in Religious Studies from CSU Chico. She holds a master's degree from Harvard Divinity School and studied for a PhD in Western Esotericism under the late Dr. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke at the University of Exeter (UK). She received her doctorate from the Graduate Theological Foundation. She worked as an independent scholar, teaching and leading retreats in the US, UK, and Ireland. She also taught at Naropa University in Boulder, CO.

Siobhan has written three books: Invoking Mary Magdalene: Accessing the Divine Feminine (Sounds True); Gnostic Healing (with Tau Malachi, Llewellyn), and Priests, Gnostics, and Magicians: European Roots of Esoteric Independent Catholicism (Apocryphile Press). Her work has also appeared in academic journals and popular periodicals such as GNOSIS: A Journal of the Western Inner Traditions, Parabola, Theosophical History, and Quest Magazine. Her short fiction, essays, and poetry have been published in various anthologies, including The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images (Taschen, 2010).

She lives in Colorado.