Writer and editor catherine ("cat") yronwode (born Catherine Manfredi in San Francisco, May 12, 1947) is notable for her extensive career in comic books, particularly for her role as an editor with Will Eisner, Kitchen Sink Press, and Eclipse Comics (where she was the editor-in-chief). She currently works for Claypool Comics. Among her books on comics are The Art of Will Eisner (Kitchen Sink, 1982) and Women and the Comics, co-authored with Trina Robbins (Eclipse, 1983).

Yronwode has also written extensively on magic and folklore subjects, concentrating on American folklore and the system of African American folk magic called hoodoo. Her books on these subjects include The Lucky W Amulet Archive (online), Hoodoo in Theory and Practice (online), Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic (Lucky Mojo, 2002), and Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course (Lucky Mojo, 2006). Her online books are available at the luckymojo.com web site on occultism, folk magic, and sacred sex practices.

A freelance writer for many years, yronwode has been published in a number of fields. During the 1990s she was a staff editor and contributor to Organic Gardening Magazine. The California Gardener's Book of Lists (Taylor, 1998) is one of her books on gardening. With her mother Liselotte Glozer, she co-wrote and hand-lettered the faux-medieval cook book, My Lady's Closet Opened and the Secret of Baking Revealed by Two Gentlewomen (Glozer's Booksellers, 1969). Other subjects she has written on for various magazines include collectibles, popular culture, and rural acoustic blues music.

She and her former partner, Peter (born Peter Paskin), invented the name "yronwode" in 1969; it is pronounced "Ironwood". Yronwode attended Shimer College in Illinois.

Yronwode is also notable in the history of Usenet for having written a complaint that was indirectly responsible for the closing of the University of Texas's mail-to-news gateway by Fletcher Mattox in 1995.

Bibliography

• My Lady's Closet Opened and the Secret of Baking Revealed, by Two Gentlewomen (with Liselotte Erlanger Glozer). Glozer's Booksellers, 1969.
• Will Eisner Color Treasury (with Will Eisner). Kitchen Sink Press,1981. ISBN 087816006X
• The Art of Will Eisner. Kitchen Sink Press, 1982. ISBN 0878160043
• Women and the Comics (with Trina Robbins). Eclipse, 1983. ISBN 0913035017
• The Outer Space Spirit: 1952 (with Will Eisner, Wally Wood, and Pete Hamill). Kitchen Sink Press, 1989. ISBN 0878160124
• The California Gardener's Book of Lists (with Eileen Smith). Taylor Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0878339647
• Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic. Lucky Mojo, 2002. ISBN 0971961204
• Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course. Lucky Mojo, 2006. ISBN 0971961220

See also

• Ancestor worship
• Evil eye
• Henri Gamache
• Hoodoo
• Hot foot powder
• John George Hohman
• John the Conqueror
• La Santisima Muerte
• Maneki Neko
• Paschal Beverly Randolph
• Rabbit's foot

External links

• cat yronwode's autobiography at yronwode.com
• Hoodoo in Theory and Practice by catherine yronwode at luckymojo.com
• The Lucky W Amulet Archive by catherine yronwode at luckymojo.com
• Blues Lyrics and Hoodoo by catherine yronwode at luckymojo.com
• Ex-Slave Narratives About Hoodoo edited by catherine yronwode at southern-spirits.com

1947 births | Living people | American writers | Comic book editors | Occult writers