Amanda Blake Soule

Amanda Blake Soule is the creator of the popular blog SouleMama.com, which she began in 2005 as a way to share the creative journey of her family. That emphasis on creative exploration, family connection and appreciate for nature is at the heart of her first three books with Roost Books - The Creative Family, Handmade Home and The Rhythm of Family (which she co-wrote with her husband Steve). In 2012, Amanda started Taproot Magazine, an ad-free print publication dedicated to exploring the topics of food, farm, family and craft through art, photography, recipes, patterns and personal narrative. Amanda lives in Western Maine with her husband, five children, and a growing menagerie of farm animals in a 200 year-old farmhouse and homestead they are restoring. Growing and making all manner of things in their days, they strive as a family to stay connected to one another and the Earth by bringing creativity and mindfulness into the everyday.