Plant Medicine & Midwifery Educator, Water Protector, and Land Defender. She spent a lifetime learning and teaching plant medicine. Her first work of fiction is Circle of the Earth, the sequel Expeditions, is due out in summer 2025.
She was a midwife for over thirty years, before her retirement in 2002, she played a pivotal role in shaping midwifery education, licensure, and accreditation for direct-entry midwives. She is also an urban homesteader, promoting permaculture, emergency preparation, and food resilience.
She is the author of the Birthsong Midwifery Workbook, Emergency Guide to Obstetric Complications, Training Midwives: A Guide for Preceptors, and other midwifery publications. Eagletree Guide to Herbal Medicine Making gives recipes for the hundreds of products made in her fifty years in the herbal business before she retired to focus on writing.
Her heritage includes Lakota from the Standing Rock Tribe, Spanish, and European. She is the mother of four grown children and eight grandchildren. She lives in Eugene, Oregon