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SUMMARY:Visiting Author - Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder - Mother\, Creature\, Kin: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling
DESCRIPTION:Essayist Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder will be visiting Francie & Finch Bookshop on June 26th at 5:30! Steinauer-Scudder’s new book Mother\, Creature\, Kin\, described as “heartachingly beautiful” by writer Kerri ní Dochartaigh\, is a work of non-fiction that you don’t want to miss.\nPurchase your copy of Mother\, Creature\, Kin HERE!\nAbout the Book:\nLuminous nonfiction about the natural world from essayist Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder\, who asks: what can other-than-human creatures teach us about mothering\, belonging\, caregiving\, loss\, and resiliency? \nWhat does it mean to be a mother in an era of climate catastrophe? And what can we learn from the plants and creatures who mother at the edges of their world’s unraveling? \nBecoming a mother in this time means bringing life into a world that appears to be coming undone. Drawing upon ecology\, mythology\, and her own experiences as a new mother\, Steinauer-Scudder confronts what it means to “”mother”” to do the good work of being in service to the living world. What if we could all mother the places we live and the beings with whom we share those places? And what if they also mother us? \nIn prose that teems with longing\, lyricism\, and knowledge of ecology\, Steinauer-Scudder writes of the silent flight and aural maps of barn owls\, of nursing whales\, of real and imagined forests\, of tidal marshes\, of ancient single-celled organisms\, and of newly planted gardens. The creatures inhabiting these stories teach us about centering\, belonging\, entanglement\, edgework\, homemaking\, and how to imagine the future. Rooted in wonder while never shying away from loss\, Mother\, Creature\, Kin reaches toward a language of inclusive care learned from creatures living at the brink. \nWriting in the tradition of Camille Dungy\, Elizabeth Rush\, and Margaret Renkl\, Steinauer-Scudder invites us into the daily\, obligatory\, sacred work of care. Despair and fear will not save the world any more than they will raise our children\, and while we don’t know what the future holds\, we know it will need mothers. As the very ground shifts beneath our feet\, what if we apprenticed ourselves to the creaturely mothers with whom we share this beloved home? \nAbout the Author:\nChelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of MOTHER\, CREATURE\, KIN (Broadleaf Books\, 2025). She grew up in the Great Plains of Nebraska and Oklahoma. After receiving her masters of theological studies at Harvard Divinity School\, her writing became focused on the confluence of relationship to place with experiences of the sacred. From 2017-2022\, she worked as a staff writer and editor for Emergence Magazine\, an online and print publication exploring the intersection of culture\, ecology\, and spirituality. Her writing can also be found in The Atlantic\, The Common\, The Slowdown\, Decor Maine\, Crannóg Magazine\, EcoTheo Review\, From the Ground Up\, CooNoor&Co\, the edited poetry collection Writing the Land\, and in Katie Holten’s The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape. She lives with her family in Rochester\, Vermont. \nFor more information about the author\, visit her website HERE.
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