About Four Queens

As lifelong academics and literary arts organizers, we created Four Queens at the crossroads of our own experience — where somatic intelligence was too often overlooked, diminished, and dismissed. The name "Four Queens" honors the queens of the Tarot, each a figure of creative sovereignty, embodied wisdom, and reclaimed agency. We shaped this space as a living commitment to relational knowing, imaginative practice, and the evolving arts of divination, writing, and collective transformation.

Kristen E. Nelson and Selah Saterstrom are writers, educators, and diviners with nearly fifty years of combined experience in intuitive guidance, radical creative practice, and community-building. Together, they co-founded Four Queens Divination and co-host The Janky Church Podcast, where they explore the intersections of divination and writing.

Selah is the author of five books, including Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics, and draws on a Southern family-style of card reading. Kristen is a queer writer and performer whose divination sessions blend tarot, prescriptive magic, and ritual. She is the author of two full-length collections of poetry, including the recent In the Away Time, and as a PhD Candidate at UC Santa Cruz, she researches Witchcraft Studies, Feminist Autotheory, and Creative Writing.

Both Selah and Kristen are respected teachers and facilitators who have guided many through divinatory sessions, writing and divination workshops, and mentorship rooted in intuitive and creative practices. At the heart of their shared work is the belief that divination and radical creativity are living practices rooted in liberation.

Selah lives on Vashon Island in the Pacific Northwest, and Kristen lives in Santa Cruz, California.