Author Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder In Conversation with Journalist Justine Paradis

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Author Talk:, Lecture

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Adults

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Join author Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder and journalist Justine Paradis for a reading and conversation about motherhood in a time of ecological collapse. They will discuss Chelsea's new book, MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling, in a conversation about choices, adaptation, and parenthood in a time of extreme change; how creatures and ecosystems such as barn owls, right whales, and forests are weathering transformation; and how sound, storytelling, and craft are tools to navigate these times.

About Chelsea and Justine: 

Justine Paradis is an award-winning environment reporter and public radio journalist, born and raised on Nantucket. She has reported on adaptations to environmental change, including audio documentaries on climate migration, the extraordinary networks of mutual aid in Appalachia after Hurricane Helene, and an immersive journey into a community of cold water dippersin Maine. She is a senior producer and reporter with the Outside/In, and she has contributed stories and reporting to NPR, This American Life, Drilled, Imperfect Paradise, Threshold, The Europeans, and more. justineparadis.glitch.me

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. She received her masters of theological studies at Harvard Divinity School and previously worked as a staff writer and editor for Emergence Magazine. Her work can be found in The AtlanticThe Common, The Slowdown, Decor Maine, EcoTheo Review, From the Ground Up, the WaterWorlds anthology, the edited poetry collection Writing the Land, and in Katie Holten's The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape. https://www.chelseasteinauerscudder.com/

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