Northshire Bookstore Event: Independent Bookstore Day, with Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder on Mother, Creature, Kin

(Manchester Center, VT) On Saturday, April 26 at 4 pm, as part of the annual celebration of Independent Bookstore Day, Northshire Bookstore will host a reading and signing by nature writer Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder, in honor of her luminous nonfiction about the natural world, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn from Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. 

In the book, Vermont author Steinauer-Scudder investigates caregiving and our connection to the physical world, and asks: what can other-than-human creatures teach us about mothering, belonging, caregiving, loss, and resiliency?

Becoming 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?

“Mother, Creature, Kin is both an education and an affirmation of our most essential and connected ways of being. Nuanced and layered, its language is a force of love.” – Jamie Figueroa, author of Mother Island

“Lyrical and level-headed at once, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder roots her elegant writing firmly in science while learning from the awe of mystics and, like the best of mothers, leads us lovingly and with utmost care and awareness through the debris of the Sixth Extinction on a path toward radical hope and wonder.” – Anna Badkhen author of Bright Unbearable Reality

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder received her Master of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, and writes on the confluence of relationship to place with experiences of the sacred. She previously worked as a staff writer and editor for Emergence Magazine, an online and print publication exploring the intersection of culture, ecology, and spirituality. Her work has also been featured in The Common, The Slowdown, Crannóg Magazine, EcoTheo Review, From the Ground Up, 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.

For more information on these or other events, email events@northshire.com, or visit the Northshire Bookstore website at www.northshire.com.

Northshire Bookstore, originally founded in 1976, has locations in Manchester, Vermont and Saratoga Springs, NY as well as at Northshire.com. Our large but intimate general bookstores carry the largest selection of categories and genres including new & used fiction, history, cooking, arts and rare author-signed editions. We also have entire floors devoted to Children’s Books and toys, a full line of stationery, magazines, music, cards, calendars, locally-sourced foods and many fine gifts from clothing to jewelry. Open to the public daily from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM and 24/7 online with free shipping at www.northshire.com