Who the Heck is Trae Dorn / "TRH" / That Person With the Beard

Who is Trae?

(Just a little bit of information about the person who is me, which is presumably why you're here.)

My name is Trae Dorn, and this is my life. I'm just your average forty-something genderqueer nonbinary Wiccan witch with a compulsion to keep making stuff and putting it out into the world. I primarily use they/them pronouns, and I'm generally pretty tired.

I was born in the Chicago area, raised in the Milwaukee suburbs, and have spent most of my adult life in Eau Claire, WI where I live with my wife -- though there was a seven year period where we lived in Lafayette, IN in the middle too.

If people know who I am, it's for a a handful of reasons.

These days it's usually for my witchcraft podcast BS-Free Witchcraft. I've been a practicing solitary eclectic Wiccan for over twenty-five years, and I come from things with a focus on critical thinking I think is missing from large parts of the modern witchcraft community and witchcraft media.

That's far from my only podcast though, as I produce I number of shows for the Nerd & Tie Network, which I own and co-founded with some friends back in 2013. Besides BS-Free Witchcraft, I currently appear on Stormwood & Associates, The Meatgrinder, On This Day With Trae, and The Nerd & Tie Podcast. And yes, I am the person Ryan Kopf tried to unsuccessfully sue twice.

I also write stuff. Currently I'm releasing a series of queer contemporary fantasy novels called the Mia Graves books. I also write the webcomic Peregrine Lake (with art by Ethan Flanagan), which is the follow up to my now completed comic UnCONventional which ran for ten years. I also wrote and drew the comic The Chronicles of Crosarth, though that's been on hiatus for a couple of years for a number of reasons.

I'll come back to it. Eventually.

Sometimes I make music. I used to be in a band called Happy Wednesday, and then for a while I was putting out stuff as "Lt. Snorkel." I've kind of slowed down on that front, though occasionally a new track pops up on my Soundcloud account.

I have a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, where I majored in Political Science (with a minor in Web Development and Design). I don't actually use said degree ever, but it's always nice to have a piece of paper. I currently telecommute for a fairly large corporation, but you'll never see me name it on my site... because I have strong opinions, and they may not want to be associated with them.

I'm a Democrat, relatively tall, a bit overweight, usually have a beard, and my hair is thinning in the back. That's pretty much the whole story.