Serene Conneeley is an Australian writer with a fascination for history, travel, ritual, and the myth and magic of ancient places and cultures. She's written for magazines about news, travel, health, spirituality, entertainment, and social and environmental issues, was editor of several preschool magazines, and has contributed to books on witchcraft, history, psychic development and personal transformation.

She is a member of the Australian Fairy Tale Society, and has studied magical and medicinal herbalism, bereavement counselling, reconnective healing, reiki and many other healing modalities, plus politics and journalism.

Serene loves reading, drinking tea, working out, and celebrating the energy of the moon and the magic of the earth. Her pagan heart blossomed as she climbed mountains, sat in stone circles, crawled into ancient burial mounds and stood in the shadow of the pyramids on her travels, and she's also, perhaps more importantly, learned the magic of finding true happiness and peace at home.