Diana Paxson (b 1943) is a well known author of fictional Historic and Mythic Fantasy, as well as religious and magicoreligious books written to both a pagan and heathen audience. In addition to her prolific writing, Diana also is the founder of the Society of Creative Anachronism, an elder in The Troth, and was a former First Officer in the Covenant of the Goddess. Per The Wild Hunt her time with the Troth began when she joined in 1991, became an elder in 1993 and she served on the board of Directors (known as the High Rede) and Steerswoman (functionally the Chief Executive Officer, or President) for three years. “She has been currently serving the Troth as editor of the Troth’s journal, Idunna, and Coordinator of the Clergy Training program.” She recently survived a knife attack.
News outlet the Wild Hunt provides some basic background to the matter at hand. Paxson was friends with science fiction writer of The Mists of Avalon series, Marion Zimmer Bradley and her family (including her controversial husband Walter Breen, and her children), regularly spent time together. Paxson would later write books in MZBs Avalon series. Bradley’s daughter, Moira Greyland, claimed sexual abuse from her father Walter Breen (who would later die incarcerated as a convicted child sex offender) and that her mother MZB molested her as well and collaborated with Breen on abusing multiple child victims.
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