Welcome to The Rewilded Life.

I’m Shannon Evans.

I write. I mother. I sass. I pray in the woods.

My most recent book is The Mystics Would Like a Word, which I like to think carries the torch of the contemplative Catholic tradition, just with more sarcasm and the occasional curse word.

I’m also the author of Feminist Prayers for My Daughter and Rewilding Motherhood, and by day I beg them to keep me around as culture and spirituality editor at the National Catholic Reporter. My family and I (along with our perplexing menagerie of pets) make our home on the prairies of central Iowa, where I moonlight as a free range parent and weird chicken lady.