Dana Batista is a Southern chaos-folk magician and democratic socialist author. She writes where baneful folk magic, civil liberties, and class war meet — graveyard dirt and case law, poisonous plants and police reports, Santa Muerte candles and surveillance capitalism on the same workbench.

Celtic and Norse by ancestry. Taíno and Santa Muerte by initiation. Thirty-six years in practice, twenty-six of them underground and ten out of the broom-closet.

Raised on Evangelical hymns, army rules, and the kind of violence polite people pretend not to see, she rejects Wiccan Threefold moralism, pastel witch branding, and “love and light” as cover for cowardice. She writes hexes, histories, and how-to manuals that treat intentional harm as a serious tool for boundary, consequence, and community defense — not edgy decor.

Her first book, Venēnum: A Field Manual for the Baneful Arts, is in preparation.

She writes from Sanford, North Carolina. Where she hands readers tools to live sovereign, defend their people, and stop asking permission to be dangerous.