Taproot Magazine Contributors

Roxanne Beauvais

Roxanne Beauvais is a writer, mother and maker. After spending years as a fabric shop owner and pattern writer, she now enjoys quiet days in her g...

Christine Wei

Christine Wei was born in Taiwan and is currently based in Vancouver. Her works are inspired by natural, social, and cultural landscapes. She incor...

Lauren Tran

Lauren Tran is a twenty-four-year-old elementary school teacher from Southern California. She has a passion for creating that translates into many ...

Jordan Sundberg

Jordan Sundberg is an illustrator perched in the stunning Lake Superior city Duluth, Minnesota. Much of the work she does is simply expressing the ...

Annie Lupton

Annie Lupton is a knitwear designer living in Michigan with her husband and three young children. She aims to create modern knitwear designs that o...

Andrea Chesman

Andrea Chesman is a lifelong gardener, enthusiastic practitioner of food preservation, and author of more than a dozen books focusing on cooking an...

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...