Maureen B. Roberts

Maureen B. Roberts has worked, studied, created and taught in a broad variety of interweaving fields. She has widely published non-fiction papers in the arenas of Jungian psychology, contemporary mythology, and shamanism. For the past thirty years she has run a private practice as a depth and shamanic psychotherapist, but has now retired to focus on both fiction and non-fiction writing projects. In order to retain full creative and editorial control, she has chosen to independently publish An Era in Anddemar under her own Imprint, Vandrassian Press.

Maureen has been a recipient of two university literary Prizes: The Sir Archibald Strong Memorial Prize for Literature, and The Edith Hubbe and Harriet Cook Prize. She holds a PhD in the field of English Literature and Jungian Psychology, and also studied astronomy as part of a university Science degree.

Dr Roberts has worked as an editor, singer/songwriter and musician, graphic artist and photographer. As a university and adult education tutor, she has taught courses on science fiction, creative stencilling, astronomy, literature, technical communication, Jungian psychology, and Medicine Wheel work. As an initiated Celtic shaman, she has guided numerous spiritual retreats and Vision Quests. In addition to hosting her own radio show and being a regular guest on ABC Radio, Maureen has been a speaker at conferences and seminars run by The Mythopoeic Literature Society of Australia, The Theosophical Society, and the C. G. Jung Society of South Australia.

Dr Roberts ran Australia’s Schizophrenia Drug-free Crisis Centre from 2000 - 2011. In place of solicitors, she has represented victims of coercive psychiatry at Supreme Court hearings, and at Guardianship Board hearings. She has also been flown overseas and interstate by relatives of loved ones in acute psychospiritual crises, who were desperate for soul-centred alternatives to biopsychiatry. In 2002 she convened Australia’s first international conference on drug-free crisis care for psychosis.

Maureen lives in a country cottage in a quiet town near the sea, on South Australia’s beautiful Fleurieu Peninsula, where she enjoys campervan trips, gardening, fire circles and music jams with friends, creating organic healthcare products, and coastal bushwalking. Her deep love of the Cosmos, Romanticism, classic mythopoeic literature, shamanism, Celtic Grail lore, natural medicine, music, poetry and Nature shines forth in An Era in Anddemar, an epic science fantasy, exquisite love story, and mythology like no other.