Rebecca Beattie grew up on Dartmoor, which gave her an appreciation of the power and joys of nature. After gaining her doctorate and spending 30 years in London, she returned home, and her work is based around the wild landscape of the southwest of England. A Wiccan priestess and practitioner, she is a highly acclaimed and informed teacher of the theory and practice of modern witchcraft and is the author of The Wheel of the Year (2022) and The Way Through the Woods (2024).