Announcing our contributors for The Devil anthology

38 rebels, tricksters, revolutionaries & fire-starters

The Devil from Pagan Otherworlds Tarot by Uusi

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

—Albert Camus

What do we do with forces that seek to control us? The voices that instill doubt, shrink us down, insist we can’t stand on our own? What happens when we stop fighting our shadows and instead learn to dance with them instead?

The Devil is more than a symbol of temptation or fear. It marks the boundary we’re told never to cross, the hunger we’re taught to repress, the power we’re warned not to wield.

This year, 38 contributors have stepped across that threshold. Through writing and visual art, these artists ask: What if liberation lies in the very places we’ve been told to avoid?

In Meditations on the Tarot, Valentin Tomberg describes The Devil as a force that binds us through illusion—a trickster who tempts us to mistake chains for safety. The contributors in this issue confront that illusion head-on, dismantling imposed limits of morality, acceptability, and security. They remind us that desire is not a weakness but a force; that transgression can be a path to self-knowledge; and that true freedom is forged in the fire of reckoning.

Encountering their work is stepping into that fire—sudden, searing, impossible to ignore. Their voices are raw, untamed, and unrepentant. And while the theme of submission runs deep within The Devil archetype, what you’ll find in this issue is reclamation.

Below is the full list of contributors. We encourage you to explore their work, follow them, support them. These artists are pushing past boundaries with courage and curiosity.

The Devil anthology will be available in early fall, and we’ll be announcing pre-orders in late summer.

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Meg Jones Wall is a queer, chronically-ill tarot reader and teacher, who creates tarot resources and courses for spiritual misfits through her business, 3am.tarot. They are also the author of Finding the Fool: A Tarot Journey to Radical Transformation and Tarot Spreads: How To Read Them, Create Them, and Revise Them (July 2024). Meg is the guest editor for The Devil issue of The Rebis and has also contributed to the past two issues. Follow Meg: @3am.tarot

Xaviera López is a Chilean artist and animator, and the creative director of The Rebis. Her linear drawings, animations, and short format looping videos incorporate simplified yet highly contextual self-portraits and images that display the meeting place of the material and the ethereal, and challenge perceived delineations between the felt and seen. Follow Xaviera: @xavieralopez

Nick Jacobs is a designer and producer for The Rebis. He's a tarot reader, mentor, writer, and designer with over 20 years of experience handling and studying the cards. He believes that the tarot creates the space for individuals to reflect on their lives in a meaningful, actionable, and helpful way. Follow Nick: @pageofcupstarot

Hannah Levy is a writer, poet, creative thinker, and founder of The Rebis. In her past lives, she led content marketing and brand strategy for tech companies and did a seven-year stint as the editor-in-chief of music blog Indie Shuffle. When she’s not reading and writing about tarot, she’s horseback riding, walking through the redwoods, stargazing, reading erotic poetry, and playing extensive make-believe games with her daughter. Follow Hannah: @hnnhlvy

Jesse Janelle is a writer, tarot reader, spiritual coach, and editorial fellow for The Rebis. She writes “Glimmers Weekly,” a newsletter dedicated to sharing small stories of everyday magic, joy, and comfort. As the creator of Soul Sessions, Jesse uses tarot cards as a tool of transformational coaching to guide clients to more intuitive decision making and spiritual alignment. She earned a BA in Psychology from Boston College and is currently completing her MFA in Creative Nonfiction at Bay Path University. Jesse lives in Rowley, MA with her husband and three children. Follow Jess: @jessejanelle

Stephanie Adams-Santos: Influenced by a childhood spent between Oregon and Guatemala, the art and writing of Stephanie Adams-Santos explores ancestral, primal, and mythological forces that shape inner life. In addition to their literary work, Stephanie has written for television, radio, film, and is illustrating a major arcana tarot deck. Follow Stephanie: @tarot_obscuro

Ofelia Andrades is a Chilean painter with a distinctly realist style. Between 1997-2000, she studied at the Liceo Experimental Artístico, graduating with a degree in Visual Arts with a specialization in Painting and Graphic Arts. She subsequently received a Bachelor of Visual Arts with a focus on Painting at the University of Chile, where she also earned her professional Painter's Certificate in 2010. In 2015, she founded "El Taller de Ofelia," where she teaches workshops on painting and ancient techniques. Her personal research is based on the technical and ancestral aspects of oil painting materials, which is an integral part of her own pictorial work and the focus and direction of her classes. She currently lives and works between Mexico City and Santiago, Chile. Follow Ofelia: @ofelia_andrades

Laetitia Barbier is an independent scholar, professional tarot reader, and teacher. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Art History from La Sorbonne University in Paris in 2009. From 2012 to 2024, she worked with Morbid Anatomy as programming director, head librarian, and occasional curator. Her book, Tarot and Divination Cards: A Visual Archive, was published in 2021 with a foreword by Rachel Pollack. She is also the author of the Tiger Tarot guidebook, created for the unique deck by symbolist artist Lori Field. As a writer and scholar, Laetitia collaborates with the iconic French maître-cartier Grimaud, notably on the re-release of their 1930s Tarot de Marseille and the Belline Oracle. She has lectured, taught, and read cards for numerous cultural institutions, including Greenwood Cemetery, Artyard, Fotografiska NY, the College of Psychic Studies in London, and the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Follow Laetitia: @laetitia.cartomancy

Anna Barouh Davis is an artist and a creative coach/story facilitator. Her art, currently focused on a collection of spoken word poems and an audio drama series she is writing and performing, explores the ways we navigate webs of identity and relationship, the dynamic tensions between ourselves and others. Anna walks alongside artists of all stripes to support them to weave their projects into form and connect with their artistic voice and calling. Follow Anna: @annabdcreative

Lou Benesch is a France-based artist and illustrator who grew her artistic practice from a foundation of blending cultures, after spending her childhood between France and America. Inspired by her adoration for nature and folk tales, Lou’s creations are an enchanted mix of plants, animals, anatomy, and mythological creatures. The vivid water-colored surreal compositions give an insight into her mystical imagination, expressing the duality of universal themes and personal ideas of the world. With images coming to her almost as visions and an indescribable pull to record them, the uniqueness of her art speaks to the instinctual process in which they are formed. Follow Lou: @un_loup

Aliya Bree Hall is a lesbian author, freelance journalist and founder of Sapphic Stories Book Club: Queer & Feminist Tales. She writes sapphic romance, and her short-form sapphic horror has been published in the Bleak Midwinter Vol. I: The Darkest Night and Twisted Horrors anthologies. Her creative nonfiction can be found in the Absolute Pleasure: Queer Reflections on Five Messy Decades of The Rocky Horror Picture Show anthology (September 2025). Follow Aliya: @aliya.bree

Shannon Brigid is a New York-based photographer. Her work documents a navigation of the physical world guided by the intangible. She is currently working on a photobook that captures a series of experiences along her sun line in astro-cartography. Through a record of photographs, Shannon seeks to reconcile the disconnect between personal and human history. Follow Shannon: @saint___brigid

Aurora Brush is a queer printmaker, book artist, and illustrator living in Kingston, NY. Their work oscillates between both a personal practice and a social practice, and often intertwines the two. In their personal work, Aurora creates maximalist illustrations of creatures in overgrown botanical scenes and dream-like landscapes. Through their own interpretations of alchemical processes, Aurora uses mediums such as copper etching and risograph printing to navigate and express their relationship to ancestors and as a means of translating / transforming intergenerational trauma and struggle. Often their work is seeking the connection between my body, mind and spirit, informed by investigations into tarot, theology, surrealism, psychology, and dreams. Recently they’ve created an oracle deck of 25 major arcana figures, as well as self published several books. Follow Aurora: @cosmicdoghousepress

Lari Burgos is a multidisciplinary artist, illustrator and food writer from New England based in Anjou, France. A daughter of the Puerto Rican diaspora, her work explores histories through a vibrant visual language that she calls “Domestic Psychedelia.” She writes about food history curiosities in her monthly illustrated newsletter, RENDERED. In her personal tarot practice, she uses its symbolism as a vehicle for introspective self-reflection and artistic inspiration. Follow Lari: @larisanjou

[sarah] Cavar is the author of Failure to Comply (featherproof books, 2024) and Differential Diagnosis (Northwestern University Press, 2026). They are editor-in-chief of manywor(l)ds.place, and their work can be found in Electric Lit, The Rumpus, Split Lip Magazine, and elsewhere. A PhD candidate in Cultural Studies, Cavar teaches bicoastally and lives on the internet. Follow Cavar: @cavarchives

Charlie Claire Burgess is a queer and trans nonbinary author, artist, and witch working at the intersection of spirituality and queerness. They are the author of Queer Devotion and Radical Tarot, and the creator of the Fifth Spirit Tarot and Gay Marseille Tarot decks. Their writing has appeared in the Tarot in Other Words anthology, The Lambda Literary Review, F(r)iction, and elsewhere. They were the guest editor for The Rebis: The Star. Follow them @the.word.witch

Meg Feuk is a scientist and poet from Tacoma, Washington whose work is an exploration of the natural world and her messed up heart, the confines of societal norms, and the heavy lift of bringing children into the world. Her poetry was featured in the Ground to Sound Film Festival, and her work has been published by Creative Colloquy, Spell Jar Press, and Free Verse Revolution. Follow Meg: @meg.feuk

Duna Haller is a writer, collagist, astrologer and musician from Madrid, Spain. She has two poetry books out, Limbo (Bottlecap Press) and Desierto (Reflector Libros). Her work usually deals with mental & physical health themes, LGBTQ+ issues, memory and relationships, and she's always inclined and curious towards collaborative work. Follow Duna: @dunahaller

jd hegarty is a poet, an anarchist, and a sunflower living in Minneapolis, Minnesota with two cats. jd’s work can be found in Name & None, Crab Orchard Review, Mortar Magazine, 45th Parallel, Inscape, and elsewhere. Their first chapbook, On Passing, was published by Red Bird Chapbooks in 2017 and their self-published chapbook of sad gay love poems, the clearest blue, is available for free. Follow jd: @josiedumbass.bsky.social

Lex Hesperus is a queer witch, mystic, writer, and devotee of the sensual, radical, & erotic. As a votary of the divine spark, he is devoted to reweaving sacred relationship and helping others learn to love their fates by engaging with spirit body and soul. His work been featured in Yahoo! News, Huffington Post, and The Rebis, as well as many podcasts and essay collections. Follow Lex: @thelexhesperus

Rikki Horvatic is a writer, process artist and mother living in the Midwest. She enjoys spending time with her family, playing in her journals, creating art, and daydreaming. She work focuses on the destruction and transformation of material. Her artwork has been published by The Rebis, and her writing has been published by Pile Press. Follow Rikki: @starmothpress.bsky.social

shea in the catskills is a queer artist, tarotist, intuition facilitator, organizer and contemplative. They lived in full-time, residential training at a Zen Buddhist monastery for 9 years, where they did lots of meditation and liturgical training, and experienced the joys and challenges of communal religious living. They spend their days walking, making, imagining, reading, listening, writing, conversing with conspirators, tending to their constantly shifting obsessions and alchemizing suffering in the cauldron of queer friendship. Follow shea: sheainthecatskills.com

Shelly Jay Shore is a writer of queer and trans stories, a digital strategist, and a nonprofit fundraiser. The bestselling author of Rules for Ghosting, Shelly writes for anxious queer millennials, sufferers of Eldest Daughter Syndrome, and anyone struggling with the enormity of being a person trying to make the world kinder, softer, and more tender. They live in Western Massachusetts, where they attempt to wrangle two large dogs and two small children. Follow Shelly: @shellyjayshore

Christopher Marmolejo, MA, is a Brown, queer, and trans writer, diviner, and educator. They are the author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy, published by North Atlantic Books. As a trained educator focused on cultivating classrooms of emancipatory possibility, they work with students around the world to plant and nurture the seed of a divinatory practice, finely weaving tarot, astrology, and curanderismo with decolonial, queer epistemologies and critical, feminist pedagogies. Follow Christopher: @the.red.read

Tehlor Mejia is the award-winning transgender author of novels and short fiction which span a wide range of ages and genres. The through-line of Tehlor’s diverse body of work is a passionate commitment to abolitionist, anti-capitalist values and community-grounded working-class solidarity. He lives in his home state of Oregon with his wife, extremely cool kid, and two perfect dogs, and is technically on social media (@tehlorkay) though he’s never been all that great at it.

Sean Koa Seu is a writer, researcher, and zine-maker exploring the intersections of cosmology, aesthetics, and politics. He is pursuing his MA at CalArts, where his research examines 20th-century gay erotica in Los Angeles. His work analyzes myth as conveyed through media, investigating how gay eroticists both challenge and reinforce LA's dominant political narratives. He's also working on an LA tarot deck, collaging archival photos to map the city's history onto the archetypes. Follow Sean: @seankoaseu

Candace Kronen is a poet, songwriter, and speech-language pathologist currently living in Ontario, Canada. Her work has been published in Suspended Magazine, Free the Verse, and Last Leaves Magazine. Candace draws inspiration from world mythology, the natural world, and conversations with her six year old. Her weekly newsletter can be found on Substack at Stories I’ll Tell My Daughter. Follow Candace @candacekronenpoetry

Kole Leavitt is an agender artist and mystic, corporeally located in Chicago, IL. Their work explores the crossroads between art, occult knowledge, intuition, existentialism, and divinity. This means they spend an inordinate amount of time incorporeally floating among the stars and planets, or descending into the primordial Void, and then attempting to paint what they see. It's fun! Follow Kole: @throughthevoid_

Alm Lindsey co-authored five scientific studies of soil before funding from Pratt Institute’s STEAMPlant program jump-started her creative writing practice. Her essay “Reading and Writing the Climate Future” is printed in the climate-savvy cookbook Recipes for a Warmer World. She lives in New York City with her partner, her child, and a wise old cat.

KJ Naum’s work has appeared in Electric Literature, The Rebis, HuffPost Women and others. Their first book, tentatively titled Unpredictable: Climate Crisis Wisdom from the Tarot (forthcoming from Crossed Crow Books), is an intersectional and deeply queer vision of environmental justice and community-building in the unpredictable future. KJ is a practicing witch, writer, and fiber artist with deep roots in New York State and central Illinois, who specializes in science communications strategy in their day job. Follow KJ: @kjnaum.bsky.social

Alessandra Nysether-Santos is a writer, educator, artist, and witch. Their poem “Marvelous Marble Jesus” received honorable mention in the 2024 Jaki Shelton Green Performance Poetry Prize. Alessandra has publications in places like Até Mais: An Anthology of Latinx Futurisms, the Space538 Poetry Hotline, the North Carolina Literary Review, and the lickety-split. Alessandra lives in Florida with her husband, dog, and two kittens who are actually goblins. Follow Alessandra: @hashtagalessandra

Helena Pantsis is an editor, writer and artist from Naarm, Australia with a fond appreciation for the weird, the dark, and the experimental. She is the author of short story collection, GLUTT, and the forthcoming poetry collection CAPTCHA. Follow Helena: @hlnpnts

Ashley Roncaglione is a registered nurse living in Durham, North Carolina. Themes on mental health, trauma, and the human experience are sources of inspiration for her writing. She has been featured in publications by Dark Thirty Poetry Publishing, Carolina Muse Literary & Arts Magazine, Same Faces Collective, and Mulberry Literary. Her passions outside of writing include sustainable beekeeping, mushroom foraging, and beach combing. Follow Ashley: @ashleyroncaglione

Miranda Saake is a writer, teacher, and mother from Northern California. Her work is inspired by memory, myth, tarot, and the unending beauty of the more than human world. Follow Miranda: @mirandasaakepoetry

Rebecca “Bee” Scolnick is a writer, witch, and weirdo, who wants to help make meaning out of mess. Her books, The Witch’s Book of Numbers and Marriage by the Numbers, are out now, and she pens swimming in the soup on Substack. She is also one-third of Call Your Coven: Practical Advice for Nonsensical. Follow Bee: @beescolnick

Jamie Waggoner is an author, Pagan priestess, and occult expert. She has been a practicing witch for 25+ years. Jamie is the author of Hades: Myth, Magic and Modern Devotion (Llewellyn, 2024), and contributor to Witchology Magazine, Haunted Magazine, and The Feminine Macabre, among others. Jamie is also a cofounder and teacher for Way of the Weaver, an inclusive program of magical inquiry, social justice, and community building. Follow Jamie: @jmwaggoner

Erika Walsh is a poet from New York currently pursuing her MFA in Poetry at the University of Alabama. She has served as poetry editor of Black Warrior Review and is co-founding editor of A Velvet Giant. Erika's creative writing has been featured or is forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Passages North, So to Speak, and elsewhere. She is interested in flora, fauna, fairies, and ghost stories, as long as they're not too scary. Follow Erika: @erika4evaa

Mae Wilson is a cartoonist and artist from California’s Central Coast. Influenced by a childhood spent lurking in the scrub while listening to Enya, she is interested in studying the connection between skepticism and mysticism, human responsibility towards the larger ecosystem, and what happens when societal structures meet their limits. Mae received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2021. She is currently exhibiting her work at zinefests across Southern California. When she is not making art, she enjoys vegan cooking hacks, science history, and stargazing. Follow Mae: @generalmaehem

Elizabeth Wing is a writer, dirt worker, and occasional puppeteer based in Portland, Oregon. Her work has appeared in 7x7, The West Marin Review, Washington Square Review, ALOCASIA, and other venues. She's happy to share her "Jesus Freak" playlist on request.