Maila Davenport is an archetypal mythologist, poet, and ritual artist. She spends most of her time bumping around in those uneven in-between places curious. Her writing and art are experiments of how to hold all the pieces, those broken, thrust upon us, or evading our grasp. She serves the gaps, the terrain of mythical imagination, weaving unlike pieces together to bring life rushing in. By necessity she aligns with the ephemeral, orality, symbols, layers, discontinuity, paradox, and archetypal fields – a kosmos of ruins. To counter such ambiguity she collects paper shards, any type of glue, and thesauruses.
Maila holds a BA in Psychology from Willamette University, an MA in Counseling Psychology from Lewis & Clark College, and a PhD in Mythological Studies and Archetypal Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Looking back, she recognizes that she has always been a depth mythologist—drawn to the visible and invisible Stories that shape individual lives and communities, and exploring them through many different methods and materials. Maila is a Vajrayana Buddhist in the Magyu Lineage, which reveres and magnifies the sacred feminine force in Buddhism. She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her muggle husband, John.
