Cynthea Masson

Cynthea Masson is a professor in the English department at Vancouver Island University. After completing a Ph.D. in English with a focus on medieval mysticism, she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship involving work with medieval alchemical manuscripts at the British Library. In addition to articles on mysticism and alchemy, many of her publications over the past decade have been in the area of television studies. She is a co-editor of the book Reading Joss Whedon (Syracuse University Press, 2014). Her fiction includes The Elijah Tree (Rebel Satori, 2009) and The Alchemists' Council series (ECW Press, 2016, 2018, and 2020). She lives in British Columbia.

Her blog "News from Council Dimension" can be read here: https://cyntheamasson.com/