The Habit Portfolio

Writer. Author of Daughter of Arden Trilogy. Wife to Professor Kraig. Mom to three intrepid teens. Thinker of lots of thoughts. Learning to love God more as the mystery of him grows greater each year.

Heather Cadenhead is a poet, essayist, and autism advocate. Previously, she has written for Ekstasis Magazine, The Rabbit Room, and Autism Speaks. She is a homeschooling mother of two sons, one of whom has non-speaking autism.

Reagan loves names and words and stories. She once studied creative writing and theatre arts, but today she sends handwritten letters and salvages her own little house on the prairie.

Elizabeth Harwell tells stories on herself at her Substack, The Things I Carry, and invites her readers to share stories in return. She and her family are most happy when their house is full of people and music is playing.

Writer of poetry and prose. Cultivating attention, curiosity, connection and presence. Encountering God in the small spaces of life. Find me with a good book and handful of ditch flowers in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

High school English teacher in Jackson, MS. Formerly unemployed in Greenland.

Learning what it takes to live a life. Poet, essayist, amateur linguist. Huge fan of how my family daily puts up with my nonsense.

Mother. Poet. Teacher. Sojourner.

I write to remember, behold, & reach for home—both temporal and eternal. meganhuwa.com | @meganhuwa

Jesus Follower, Writer, Farm-maker

Margaret Bush lives in Houston, Texas, where she works as a technical editor. Her hobbies include writing, reading, bingeing TV, hiking, and playing board games. Her hobbies do not include writing personal bios, but here we are.

Person, mom, occasional writer. Lifelong west coast-er now living in the Pacific Northwest. Lover of reading, travel, good food, the natural world, interesting lectures, and beautiful old things.

Aaron J. Nelson is a writer and disability rights advocate with Cerebral Palsy. His favorite form of procrastination is watching ESPN. Ask his Border Terrier, Scout, if he's unreachable. He's likely visiting Kansas City’s bookstores and restaurants.

Bald from the inside out.

Sandra Rose Hughes is a stay-at-home mom to 5 beautiful creations of God and two surly cats. She writes poetry and middle grade fantasy fiction about the Orkney Islands and identical twins.

Her short stories have appeared in international literary magazines as well as "best of" anthologies. She studied at The Writers Studio and One Story in New York and is an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. www.sylviaschwartz.com

Writer of fantastical history and historical fantasy. Inspired by myths, fairytales, Bible stories, and legends, I love taking ancient tales and reintroducing them to a modern audience. Visit me on Substack or www.MonicaLOlsen.com.

Wife of one. Mama of five. Grandma of seven. Writer, reader who loves morning walks and afternoon tea.

Dave Nelson is a writer who currently lives in Mississippi. His short fiction has appeared in CC&D, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The Habit Portfolio, and The Windhover. Decision at Brock Road (2025) is his first novel.

Dana Ryan writes from Southern California where she lives with her husband and three children. She still doesn’t think of herself as a city person.

I’m a visual artist from the Western Isles of Scotland. I also work in arts education, production design / filmmaking. I’ve been learning about poetry for 4 years.