Elizabeth Cunningham is a feminist visionary novelist and author of The Maeve Cronicles, which includes the books The Passion of Mary Magdalen and Magdalen Rising. Earlier books include The Wild Mother and How To Spin Straw Into Gold.

A descendant of nine generations of Episcopal priests, Cunningham expressed the desire to reconcile her Christian origins with a sense of the Divine Feminine. She completed her undergraduate work in English at Harvard in 1976. Now an ordained interfaith minister, she is in private practice as a counselor. Cunningham is also director of the Center at High Valley in New York's Hudson Valley.