Embahra Maat

Embahra Maat is an author and songwriter who got her start as the winner of a playwriting contest in middle school. During her undergraduate career, she concentrated her English degree in Creative Writing, where she experimented with poetry, short stories, and children’s stories. Embahra served as writer and editor-in-chief of The Caellian, the progressive student magazine of Douglass College at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and later enrolled in fiction writing courses through the School of Professional Studies at NYU.

From September 2009 through 2024, Embahra Maat served as the High Priestess of the Temple of Anu, an Afra-Kemetic spiritual house which focuses on cultural restoration. She was co-teacher for First Eye on Kemet, a course that introduces students to the Kemetic tradition, and head teacher of KMWT, preparing women for spiritual initiation. Embahra is also a member of the Global Sacred Woman Village, a spiritual community of women which engages Kemetic practices for holistic healing. Her experience supporting the cultural realization and spiritual growth of her community encouraged her to form The House of Magickal Devotion, expected to be inaugurated in the summer of 2025.