About the Author:

Nugget (Tiffany Machler) is an artist, priestess, storyteller, and full-time resurrection project. She paints public murals, conjures archetypes, and turns lived experience into art that can crack people open in the best possible way.
Her work is rooted in truth-telling, satire, sensuality, and a deep devotion to growth — the kind that doesn’t hide the bruises or the brilliance. She writes for the women who’ve rebuilt themselves from bone and will, for the men brave enough to rise with integrity, and for anyone who knows transformation is messy, holy, and occasionally hilarious.
Nugget lives in Wilmington, NC, creating magic in the margins between motherhood, art, community, and her own evolution. How to Rise to Meet a Woman Like This is her first book-length offering — part field guide, part mirror, part mythic permission slip.

The Creative Constellation

Lacy Vilandrey — Illustrator, Archetype Alchemist
Lacy brings the archetype pairs to life through a blend of mythic symbolism and razor-sharp emotional intuition. Her illustrations stitch humor and shadow with beauty and grit — the perfect visual companions for a book built on truth, transformation, and a little delicious chaos.
Her work has an energy that doesn’t just decorate the page — it interprets it.

Garajev — Book Designer & Layout Sorcerer
The architect of this book’s world. Garajev takes Nugget’s whirlwind of art, text, ritual pages, and gothic-mythic collage ideas and turns them into a visually coherent, irresistible object. His design sensibilities make the book feel ancient and modern, sacred and punk — the exact alchemy this project requires.