Eva Yaa Asantewaa is a native New Yorker of African-Caribbean lineage.  She is a spiritworker, maintaining a private practice that includes Tarot-based psychic counseling, sacred symbolism, meditation coaching, dreamwork, and other healing and transformative modalities. Eva is an ordained minister (ULC, Modesto, CA) and legally registered with the City of New York as a marriage officiant.

Through Radical Magick (which she founded in 1992), Eva has produced and facilitated workshops and special events sponsored by over fifty health and social service, spiritual, feminist, people of color, and gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender organizations in the New York metropolitan area. Among these are the New York Open Center’s Womanspirit Journey program, New York Theosophical Society, College of New Rochelle, Healing Works, New York State Conference on Women’s Health, Riverside Church Wellness Center, Women’s Health Education Project, and Women’s Rites Center. (See below for complete list.)

Eva’s poetry appears in The Zenith of Desire: Contemporary Lesbian Poems about Sex (ed., Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Crown, 1996), Does Your Mama Know? An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories (ed., Lisa C. Moore, RedBone Press, 1997), Queer Dog: Homo Pup Poetry (ed., Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Cleis, 1997), Isis Rising: The Goddess in the New Aeon (ed., Denise Dumars, 2000), Brooklyn Review, Kuumba, Starfish, WV, Tempus, The Isis Papers, and the Pegasus Dreaming, Star Leaper, and Pedestal Magazine Web sites. Most recently, she was published in An Eye for An Eye Makes the Whole World Blind: Poets on 9/11 (Regent Press). She has read at numerous venues including the Brooklyn Museum, the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, A Different Light Bookstore, Bowery Poetry Club, and Cornelia Street Cafe.

Since 1976, Eva has published dance journalism appearing in Dance Magazine, Soho News, The Village Voice, and The New York Times, among other print and online publications. She has interviewed performing artists, choreographers, and artistic directors and evaluated dance organizations for the New York State Council on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other arts funding organizations. As a WBAI radio broadcaster (1987-89), she worked with the Women’s Radio Collective and the Gay and Lesbian Independent Broadcasters Collective (OUTLOOKS), and co-hosted the Tuesday Afternoon Arts Magazine with Jennifer Bernet as well as producing her own specials. From January 2001 to January 2005, Eva published DancingWorld, a monthly email newsletter devoted to Tarot, psychic and spiritual development, and creativity. She was a contributing writer for Gay City News from December 2005-February 2007, specializing in dance criticism.  She has taught courses in writing on dance for Dance Theater Workshop, and has been a guest contributor to Apollinaire Scherr's Foot in Mouth dance blog at www.artsjournal.com/foot.  She was an editor for The Tarot Channel, Mark McElroy's blog site, at www.thetarotchannel.com and hosts her own blogs--InfiniteBody at http://infinitebody.blogspot.com/ and hummingwitch at http://hummingwitch.blogspot.com as well as the Body and Soul dance podcast at http://magickaleva.hipcast.com/rss/bodyandsoul.xml and hummingwitch podcast at http://magickaleva.hipcast.com/rss/hummingwitch.xml.

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