Bruce
Magnotti

Bruce Magnotti is a published poet and author, a jeweler in fine gemstone and crystal work, a maker of deerskin clothing, and a photographer. He has been writing since the second grade and may never stop. His earliest extended work, the memoir On Earth as It Is in Heaven, covers the period June 1969 to June 1971 — Philadelphia cab-driver, anti war activist, a glimpse of the American counterculture firsthand, a New Mexico commune where Allen Ginsberg befriended him in 1970 — organized by the chapters of the Tao Te Ching.

His poetry and short fiction have appeared in venues in the United States and in Berlin since 2020. He co-wrote the peer-reviewed psychology article "The Normality of ADHD," rooted in his graduate work in radical phenomenology in the 1980s. Earlier publications include an art-antiques price guide and newspaper journalism on the Capitol Hill music scene and on Eastern Washington economic development.

Magnotti is the founder of Atelier du Sorcier, an artisan house representing six brands — Leather and Bone, Naked Reiki, Black Leather Journal, Elusions, Light Rain Books, and Snake Foot Tribe. Ne is the designer and creator of a continuously growing catalog of crystal amulets, charms, and talismans set in Old German silver capsules both antique and redesigned, The talisman work began in a long and synchronistic pivot from cocktail rings for celebrities and millionaires to crystal jewelry of an entirely different order. A Visigoth priestess apprenticed him after her death, organizing what his hands had already begun.

The novella Vampire Belles is the first published gateway of a seven-installment speculative cycle in progress, which braids the prose fiction with the graphic novella The Cloak of Immortality, the road memoir, and the talisman catalog into a single universe set across seven and a half thousand years.

He divides his time between Seattle and Sarlat-la-Canéda in the Dordogne.

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