Siobhán Watkins is an academically trained microbiologist, artist, essayist and poet, and the founder of Microanimism. Microanimism, first as a personal philosophical exploration of the author’s relationship with the Smalls, came into online existence in 2018, and Siv has been writing poems about phlegm ever since.
Between 2003 and 2018, Siv held professional positions in scientific industry, commercial, and academic research/faculty settings. Her doctoral studies, which she completed in 2011, were an examination of communities of bacteria in wastewater treatment systems. She has also specialized in conservation microbiology, freshwater pollution and bioremediation, and environmental viral diversity.
In 2016, Siv became a student of ritual technology, and she is particularly drawn towards the edgier aspects of how the Smalls may offer a role in human occult practices. She is interested in exploring how ancientness, difficulty and death act as interface between microbes and humans.
Originally from the UK, Siv now lives in New Mexico, where she looks after horses with specialized needs for care, and tends to her elderly feline familiar.
"Siv has the fluency to navigate details and dimensions of life that aren’t being addressed elsewhere, with emotion and intellect intact, facts and unanswered questions, paved paths and tools to the unknown."
— Previous course participant