Angela Krout is a practitioner, and the leader of the American Eclectic Pagan tradition, and has been active in Pagan circles and communities since 1991 and has been teaching since 1997. In 2015, she brought her late High Priestesses work out of her personal practice and began teaching others her personal tradition, which led to the formation of Heart of the Bear Grove (a 501(c)3), where she is currently the high priestess. She was the Kansas City Pagan Pride Day Community Service Award Winner in 2016. She has served as President of Heartland Spiritual Alliance and has held Board of Directors positions for Rogue Waters, Heartland Spiritual Alliance, and various other appointments, including the first Pagan chaplain in the Fraternal Order of Eagles Auxiliary.
She currently is a ghostwriter for several well known blogs, and has also self-published three books. She is currently working on her 4th and 5th books simultaneously. Her other interests include: hiking in Colorado, Jeeping, crochet, gardening, reading, being house staff to three cats, costuming, Pokemon, and creating magical things with essential oils.
She is the proud mother to Michael, the high school junior and Dylan, the US Army soldier.
Angela currently lives in Independence, Missouri with her husband and their three, glorious feline fur-daughters: Artemis, Belisama, and Roslyn.