Alex Mar is the author of Witches of America, which was a New York Times Notable Book and a New York Times Editors’ Pick. Her work has appeared in New York Magazine, Wired, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, and The Guardian, among many other outlets, as well as The Best American Magazine Writing. She has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Feature Writing, and she is also the director of the feature-length documentary American Mystic. After five years of immersive research and writing, Mar has just published her second non-fiction book, Seventy Times Seven. The book has been named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, one of New York Magazine’s “Best Books of 2023,” and an Amazon Editors’ Pick, and it was one of Goodreads’ “Readers’ Most Anticipated Books of Spring” and Literary Hub‘s “Most Anticipated Books of 2023.” Reviews of the book can be found here. Mar lives in the Hudson Valley and New York City.