Daphne Singingtree

Daphne Singingtree is a plant medicine and midwifery educator, water protector, and land defender. She has spent a lifetime learning, practicing, and teaching traditional plant medicine, with more than five decades in the herbal field. She is the author of The Eagletree Guide to Herbal Medicine Making, drawing on fifty years of hands-on experience creating herbal products.

A midwife for over thirty years, Daphne played a pivotal role in shaping direct-entry midwifery education, licensure, and accreditation. She is the author of The Birthsong Midwifery Workbook, now in its Seventh Edition, Emergency Guide to Obstetric Complications, Training Midwives: A Guide for Preceptors, and other foundational midwifery texts.

She is also the author of the speculative fiction series Circle for the Earth: A Time Travel Saga to Forge a Sustainable Future, including Expeditions: A Time Travel Journey, with the upcoming sequel, Thunder Calls. Her fiction weaves survival, alternative history, and Indigenous ways of knowing with practical, earth-based realism.

Daphne lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she practices urban homesteading focused on emergency preparedness and food resilience, and engages in nonprofit work promoting plants for health and a connection to the earth.