Jennifer MacCormack has been a casual student of Celtic story since she was 15 and found a book in the local library on Celtic Mythology. Her first interest was in the Irish Myth Cycles and the Scottish tales of Selkies and Kelpies, but this gradually grew into a fascination with Welsh culture, language, and most of all, a passion for the Mabinogi.

She lives in Gwynedd, North Wales, in the valley of Lleu's Stream where Blodeuwedd still hunts, and is working on her BA in Welsh Studies. Jennifer is a fluent Welsh speaker, although a learner and proud of it. Some of her many other interests include gender roles in Celtic society, y Tylwyth Teg, the value of oral tradition, philo-linguistics, Jungian, Buddhist and Archetypal (or Polytheistic) psychology, local "sacred sites", horse-riding, self-sufficient eco-living, and writing the ocassional poem or short story.

Jennifer's influences are many, but finds a select few that she returns to over and over again, and these include: (Poets and Authors) David Whyte, David Abram, JRR Tolkien, Frank MacEowen, Nerys Patterson, John Keats, William Blake, and Juliet Marillier; (Places) Snowdonia, the Isle of Skye, the Appalachian Mountains, the Russian Steppes, Tara; (Cultures) Celtic, Nordic, Greek, Scythian and Siberian.

Besides studying, she works part-time as a genealogist, specializing in Welsh ancestry. She hopes to one day open her own small business, on the one hand researching clients' ancestry, and on the other hand, counselling them and helping them "meet" their Ancestors. She has found that apitherapy, therapy using bee products, compliments ancestral memory and awareness very well, and thinks bees, as well as horses, seals, swallows, owls and cats to be inspiring. Her personal symbol is the white aspen or poplar tree, "Eadha" in Gaelic and "Aethnen" in Welsh.