Author of The Maeve Chronicles

Tell Me the Story Again

Tell-Me-the-Story-Again

In Cunningham’s most recent collection of poems, many voices speak from a time just after (or long before) our time, in a real and magical world…

Magdalen Rising, The Beginning…

Magdalen Rising: The Beginning

Born to warrior witches on an isle in the Celtic Otherworld, Maeve leaves home for druid school where she falls in love with a young Galilean stranger the druids call Esus…

My Life as a Prayer: A Multifaith Memoir 

Candid and passionate, Cunningham’s nonfiction debut invites readers of all faiths—and doubts!—to explore life as a prayer (one who prays) in this beautiful, imperiled world we share. 

The Return of the Goddess, A Divine Comedy

Return-of-the-Goddess

The Goddess is back, wreaking havoc and healing the lives of everyone she takes by surprise—a minister’s wife, an ex-con, a grande dame, and an old hermit in the woods…

The Passion of Mary Magdalen

The Passion of Mary Magdalen

Parted from Esus, Maeve searches for him, escaping slavery in Rome, founding her own Temple in Galilee, till one night a Samaritan appears at her gate with a stranger in need of healing…

Bright Dark Madonna

Bright Dark Madonna

Maeve, her daughter Sarah, and Ma (the Virgin Mary) are on the lam, fleeing members of the early church who are demanding custody of Jesus’s child…

Red-Robed Priestess

Red Robed Priestess

Maeve and Sarah (now grown up) return to the Holy Isles where Maeve has unfinished business with her long-lost child, Boudica, the rebel Queen of the Iceni…