Cheryl Straffon is the author of a number of books on prehistoric Cornwall and on the Goddess, including Pagan Cornwall, Fentynyow Kernow (holy wells), Megalithic Mysteries of Cornwall, The Earth Goddess, and Daughters of the Earth. She is also editor of the long-running pagan-orientated earth mysteries magazine Meyn Mamvro and founder and editor of the magazine Goddess Alive!