Merchant has gone on to release several solo albums, including Ophelia (1998), which Entertainment Weekly praised, saying, “On her new album Ophelia and especially its first single ‘Kind & Generous’ Natalie Merchant manages to make every virtue Bill Bennett ever extolled sexy, even a little subversive.” She also released Motherland (2001), The House Carpenter’s Daughter (2003), and Leave Your Sleep (2010), which reached No. 1 on the Billboard folk albums chart. She married Daniel de la Calle in 2003 and had a daughter with him named Lucia. However, the couple has since divorced. Merchant’s album Leave Your Sleep is being turned into a picture book by the renowned children’s book illustrator Barbara McClintock.