Bio:

Dr. Maria DeBlassie is a native New Mexican mestiza and award-winning writer and educator living in the Land of Enchantment. She writes about everyday magic, ordinary gothic, and all things witchy. When she is not living that bruja life, she's teaching classes about bodice rippers, modern mystics, and things that go bump in the night. She is forever looking for magic in her life and somehow always finding more than she thought was there. 

Maria earned her B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of New Mexico and went on to earn both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature from the University of Washington. Her research interests focus on the convergence of history, pop culture, and intersectional identities. Her honors courses range from explorations of the gothic, including occult detective fiction and witchcraft in popular culture, to all things romance, sex, and gender in popular culture, from romantic comedies to romance novel history.