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About Phyllis

Ivy League attorney Phyllis Curott is also author of the internationally best-selling Book of Shadows (Broadway Books 1998), WitchCrafting: A Spiritual Guide to Making Magic (Braodway Books 2001) and the greatly anticipated sequel to her first memoir The Love Spell: An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening (Gotham Books/Penguin January 1, 2005 ).

Phyllis Curott was honored by Jane Magazine, along with Hilary Clinton, as one of the Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year when her memoir made her the world’s most visible Wiccan High Priestess. Described by New York Magazine as one of the culture’s hippest and most intellectually cutting-edge speakers, Curott lectures and teaches internationally.

She has been widely profiled in the national and international media including Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Jane, Cosmopolitan, Self, New York Magazine, Good Day America, The View, The O’Reilly Factor, Anderson Cooper’s 360, CNN & Company, Lifetime, The Roseanne Show, Oxygen, Court TV, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Sun, USA Today, The London Times, Oggi (Rome), The Toronto Sun, Sunday Telegraph (Sydney), and many others.

A global peace and interfaith activist, Curott is a member of the eminent Assembly of World Religious Leaders, and was one of the finalists for the Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom Award in 2000. She has addressed the Parliament of the World’s Religions as a keynote speaker, along with the Dalai Lama. And as a member of the United Nations’ NGO Committee on the Status of Women, Curott participated in the planning of the UN’s Beijing Forum on the Status of Women, addressing the Forum on the topic of the status of women and the world’s religions. She is also a participant in the Harvard University Religious Pluralism Project’s Consultation on Religious Discrimination and Accommodation.

Curott received her B.A. in philosophy from Brown University and her Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law. She also studied filmmaking at NYU and produced several independent films with noted director Henry Jaglom, one of which, New Year’s Day, was the only American film selected for the Venice Film Festival in 1989. She has written and directed several short films that have been screened at the Cannes and Sundance Film Festivals. She continues to practice law and is currently scheduling her next book and lecture tour. And she spends as much time as possible with her Cairn terrier Webster in their home on the east end of Long Island, where she sails, gardens, cooks, reads, rests and enjoys the fulfillment of her love spell.