Taproot Magazine Contributors

Julianna Swaney

Julianna Swaney is an illustrator who loves reading, animals, nature, and history. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she illustrates childre...

Melanie O'Brien

Melanie O'Brien is a poet, artist, and aspiring craftswoman living in New York's North Country, where she forages wild plants for the dye ...

Raquel Martin

Raquel Martin is a Spanish freelance illustrator living on the beautiful and quiet island of Minorca with her husband and her three kids. Her w...

Dani Lavoire

Dani Lavoire is a mother, midwife, home funeral educator, passionate public speaker, writer, and homesteader. Her deepest hopes lie in helping ...

Daniel Kortsch

Daniel Kortsch, MD, is a physician and Assistant Chief Medical Information Officer at Denver Health and an Assistant Professor at the University of...

Christine Bayles Kortsch

Christine Bayles Kortsch, PhD, is a writer, teacher, photographer, mama, maker, and seeker. She is the author and photographer of Tiny Dino Worlds:...

Aimee Hagerty Johnson

A lifelong love of art, literature, and research are at the heart of Aimee's work as an author-illustrator. A graduate of the Minneapolis College o...

Kathleen Herald

Kathleen Herald lives in the blue grass of Kentucky, where she was raised on home-canned vegetables and folk music. A writer with a focus on ly...

Jessica Gigot

Jessica Gigot is a poet, farmer, teacher, and musician. She has a small farm in Bow, Washing- ton, called Harmony Fields that makes artisan she...

Pete Sandker

Pete Sandker grew up near Soldiers Grove, Wisconsin, on a forty-acre goat farm. In his early twenties, he went to Downeast Maine to work on a ...

Janie Peacock

Janie Peacock, raised in Memphis, Tennessee, lives in Brooklyn, where she studies illustration at Pratt Institute, works for her college newspa...

Laura Johnson

Laura Johnson is a multidisciplinary lecturer at Humboldt State University. She holds a PhD in geography from Michigan State Universi...

Rickie Jacobs

Rickie Jacobs is a Midwestern transplant to Northern Germany’s city of Hamburg, where she freelances as a stylist. After working for an array o...