# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patricia-monaghan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:25:21.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patricia-monaghan"
name: "Patricia Monaghan"
slug: "patricia-monaghan"
description: "Patricia Monaghan was an American poet, writer, and spiritual activist who was an influential figure in the contemporary women's spirituality movement. Monaghan wrote over 20 books on a range of topics including Goddess spirituality, earth spirituality, Celtic mythology, the landscape of Ireland, and techniques of meditation. In 1979, she published the first encyclopedia of female divinities, a book which has remained steadily in print since then and was republished in 2009 in a two volume set as The Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines. She was a mentor to many scholars and writers including biologist Cristina Eisenberg, poet Annie Finch, theologian Charlene Spretnak, and anthropologist Dawn Work-MaKinne, and was the founding member of the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, which brought together artists, scholars, and researchers of women-centered mythology and Goddess spirituality for the first time in a national academic organization."
tagline: "American writer (1946-2012)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/57/Patricia_Monaghan.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946-02-15"
deathDate: "2012-11-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.78
  momentum:             1.282051282051282
  historical:           3.941253333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     25
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%BA%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "باتريسيا موناغان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Monaghan"
    title: "Patricia Monaghan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Monaghan"
    title: "Patricia Monaghan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1591189"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7145752"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations