Katherine Chantal: While most Floydians know Katherine as a mother of five sons, an herbalist, and a ceremonialist, she has been writing her stories, her memoirs, her poetry for over thirty years. Published in Mothering Magazine for her story of a surprise twin homebirth, more recently, she wrote a “Healthy Living” column for the Floyd Press.

Katherine Chantal is a Rite of Passage Ceremonialist, ordained as a Priestess in 1991. For over 25 years, she has guided and facilitated ceremony in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Katherine views her life as art, as ritual. She feels deeply that our life passages are opportunities with which to express our unique selves.

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Members of the Floyd Writer's Circle are:

Jayn Avery
Katherine Chantal
McCabe Coolidge
Kathleen Ingoldsby
Colleen Redman
Mara Robbins
Rima Forrest Sulzen
Doug Thompson
Rosemary Wyman