Contributors
Michelle Housel
Michelle is an artist and crafter living in the green mountains of Vermont. Mother of two children (and one cat), she spends her days homeschooling, painting pictures, sewing dolls, and collecting tiny things. Influenced greatly by the natural world and her children’s stories, she creates tiny worlds of her own to share. For portfolio and contact information, visit danceypantsdisco.com.
Michele Graham
Michele Graham grew up on a farm in the rolling hills of upstate New York, but has spent most of her life on the West Coast. Michele is a photographer, writer, and bookkeeper in Portland, Oregon, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She loves researching American foodways, cocktails, and plants. Find her at ciderandrye.com.
Meredith Winn
Meredith is a photographer and freelance writer. She weaves stories from truth and optical illusions from images. Balancing the digital world with slow photography, she is happiest in her darkroom creating tintypes from silver and light. Meredith lives off-grid in a yurt in New England with her partner and a trio of boys. See more of her work at meredithwinn.com.
Melissa Bahen
Melissa Bahen is the author of the blog Lulu the Baker, where she focuses on fresh recipes and modern country life. She lives in the rolling hills of western Oregon with her husband, four children, seven chickens, and two bunnies, and a handful of beehives. Her first book, Scandinavian Gatherings: From Afternoon Fika to Midsummer Feast, will be available from Sasquatch Books in late September.
Melanie Morin Wehrwein
Melanie Morin Wehrwein explores purpose, simplicity and creativity with her husband and two young children on Maine’s Blue Hill Peninsula. She swales a hillside into permaculture gardens, feeds her sourdough, braids round rugs for her round home, and resists her hermit tendencies for the belief that deep community is the answer. Read more at circlein.wordpress.com.
Megan Luczak
Megan Devine
Meg McElwee
Meg divides her creative energy among fiber work, photography, parenting, and writing. She loves to marvel at the world alongside her three unschooled children, and fills their days with adventures in North Carolina nature as well as art, books, and family music jams. Meg is the author of Growing Up Sew Liberated. She writes about the mixture of motherhood and art at blog.mamaliberated.com.
McKenzie Elizabeth Ditter
McKenzie is a self-taught illustrator and photographer living just outside Baltimore, Maryland. She screenprints on vintage linens, loves painting starry skies, and self-published her first book in 2015 called The ABCs of Homesteading. Her work centers around nature and the magic of childhood. Find her at mckenzieelizabeth.co.
Maya Stein
Maya is a poet and creative nonfiction writer and facilitates writing workshops for adults. She has published two collections of personal essays and two collections of poetry and photographs. Her “10-Line Tuesday” poems, which she has been writing for more than seven years, reach nearly a thousand people around the world each week. To learn more, visit mayastein.com. (Photo by Jeanette LeBlanc Photography)
Maya Pagán
Maya creates distinct designs that utilize sustainable resources and fibers while weaving in elements from the natural world. Maya is the author of Hope, Make, Heal: 20 Crafts to Mend the Heart and Reinvention: Sewing with Rescued Materials. Her website is filled with projects and inspiration that artfully recycle, repurpose, and reinvent. Learn more at mayamade.com
Max Godfrey
Max is a Georgia singer, music teacher and aspiring farmer. He has traveled around the country sharing worksongs at farms, grange halls, homes and festivals in hopes of bringing traditional song back into everyday life. He performs regularly with the old-time duo Max and Maggie and has recently recorded his first solo album, Down Don't Worry Me.