Starhawk is the author and coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess (Harper-Collins, 1979), long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing (Doubleday, 1993).  Her works have been translated into German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French and Japanese.  She is also a veteran of progressive movements and deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism.  She travels internationally teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism.