Author, editor, and shamanic explorer Matthew J. Pallamary's latest book titled PICAFLOR is the sequel to Spirit Matters, a San Diego Book Award and a National Best Book Award winner that chronicles his adventures throughout the mountains, deserts, and jungles of North, Central, and South America pursuing his studies of shamanism and visionary experience working with plant medicines, among them ayahuasca, peyote, San Pedro cactus, and many more.
He has sixteen books in print in multiple genres and has been leading a popular Phantastic Fiction workshop at the Southern California and the Santa Barbara Writers Conferences for over thirty years and frequently lectures about shamanism and writing throughout the United States.