Daphne Singingtree is an Author, 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,  A Time Travel Saga for a Sustainable Future.
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She was a midwife for over thirty years, and 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.
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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 launches July 18, 2024. It gives recipes for the hundreds of products made in her fifty years in making herbal medicines before she retired to focus on writing.
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Her heritage includes Lakota from the Standing Rock Tribe, Spanish, and Scottish. She is the mother of four grown children and six grandchildren. She lives in Eugene, Oregon