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Soulmaker Press

Founding author and principal voice of Soulmaker Press

Nicole Daedone

A writer on Eros, desire, freedom, and the intelligence of connection.

Her recent books have been written from inside federal prison—an ongoing inquiry into what freedom means when nearly everything has been taken away.

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Nicole Daedone

The Message

For more than two decades, Nicole Daedone has been developing a body of work around a central proposition: that desire is not an obstacle to consciousness but one of its most precise instruments. Her writing asks what becomes possible when sexuality, shadow, power, and longing are brought into spiritual life rather than excluded from it.

The Ideas

Five doorways in

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Four guided entry points

The current voice — Soulmaking in Hard Places: The Prison Edition Story in the Journal.

The Body of Work

33 books, in 5 movements

Writing from Prison

Work written from inside federal prison — freedom examined where almost nothing is free.

Also from Nicole

In Her Words

  • “Free people want other people free.”
  • “Don’t be number one at the number-two game.”
  • “You are built for the sky.”
  • “Kindness is your religion.”

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