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Varla A. Ventura
Class – Feral Self-Love for Wayward Witches: A Writing Workshop
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Bio for Varla A. Ventura
Varla Ventura is an author, traveler, rotten botanist, and lover of the strange. She has written eight books on bizarre and freaky things, from the history of paranormal parlor games to plants that smell like corpses. She is a committed supernaturalist, folklorist, and seeker of those shadowy things that scrape at your window in the night.
Her latest book, Rotten Botany: Darkly Deceptive, Bizarrely Beautiful and Oddly Alluring Plants (October, 2026), details some of the strangest plants in the world and their history and medicine. Her book Enchanted Plants: A Treasury of Botanical Folklore and Magic (April 2025) explores the gardens of fairy and folk tales, where plants and their magic and curative properties are central to the story, and is a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. When not writing, she can be found tending her poison garden, and exploring the graveyards and forests in Minnesota.
Visit Varla A. Ventura online at varlaventura.net/
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