The Power of Magical Women by Connie Boyd

Connie Boyd collects her profiles of female magicians into a single volume, capturing a slow-but-seismic gender shift

Michael Claxton
The Power of Magical Women by Connie Boyd

For the past five years, Connie Boyd has been profiling female magicians for VANISH magazine and for her podcast, Magical Women. Appearing one at a time, month by month, these articles captured a slow-but-seismic gender shift happening in magic. When you put all 70-plus stories together in a book, you have something of an earthquake. 

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about the author
Michael Claxton
An English Professor Harding University, Michael's passion is collecting and writing about magic. For 40 years, he's written numerous articles for magic periodicals and has also published 2 books.
Searcy, Arkansas
Book ReviewReviewsDecember 2025