James Hillman
Archetypal psychology
The idea of soulmaking — that life's work is the making of soul — comes from Hillman. It's the seed our entire press grows from.
Inspiration
What moves us.
We publish what we wish existed when we needed it most.
Soulmaker Press is shaped by a long lineage — from Hillman's archetypal psychology and the mystics of every tradition, to the women's prison classrooms where The Art of Soulmaking was born, to the philosophers and poets who refused to look away from desire, freedom, and the soul.
These are some of the voices we return to.
Nicole Daedone
Founder, Orgasmic Meditation
Author of The Eros Sutras and the central voice in our project of disseminating Erotic Philosophy as a path of feminine spirituality.
The women inside
The Art of Soulmaking
The classroom that became a movement: incarcerated women writing their way toward freedom, and teaching the rest of us what it actually means.
Rumi & the mystics
Lineage of Eros
The poets who knew that longing is not a problem to be solved but the through-line of the soul's life.
James Baldwin
Witness
On the writer's obligation to look unflinchingly at what is, and to refuse the comfortable lie.
Audre Lorde
The uses of the erotic
Her essay on the erotic as power — not pornography, but the deep yes — is foundational reading for everything we publish.
Find these threads woven through our list.
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