Author of MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN (@broadleafbooks 2025)
Portland, ME
Joined May 2018
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I'm running two writing workshops this spring! Salt marshes, tides, Rachel Carson, and navigating edges in our writing. Learn more and register here! chelseasteinauerscudder.com/…
We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them. vox.com/down-to-earth/240780… via @voxdotcom
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“She has felt the winters warming. Every year there is less and less snowpack to insulate her roots…She senses that an uncertain future lies ahead for this small mountainside.”
“They Carry Us With Them” by @ChelseaScudder and @Jeremy_Seifert.
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What does it mean when an ecosystem that has been dynamic, mobile, and adaptable since time immemorial suddenly finds its pathways of movement altered?
Listen to this week’s podcast, “They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration,” by @ChelseaScudder. buff.ly/3FoVqpf
ALT Photo of a man in a plaid shirt and white cap walking to the left through a forest, partially obscured by tall ferns.
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This week’s multimedia feature, nominated for Best Design in the National Magazine Awards, blends essays with photos, films, and data visuals to explore 4 stories of tree migration in Maine. “They Carry Us With Them,” by @ChelseaScudder and Jeremy Seifert. buff.ly/3M4T1Ue
ALT Photo of intertwining tree trunks and falling trees and branches, lit by the sun through the canopy.
ALT Photo of a coastal area with hills of trees on ground, and islets both near and by the horizon.
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In recent years, communities have been re-establishing the age-old practice of working in partnership with the land, helping tree populations respond to fast-changing climate patterns. Read this week’s newsletter with @ChelseaScudder and @Jeremy_Seifert.
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ALT Photo of a tree's trunk up close with short broken branches sticking out, and blue-green lichen along its bark.
ALT Photo of a man's face looking upwards towards the canopy of a forest.
ALT Closeup of a paper birch tree's white trunk where it meets the ground, with long pieces of bark pealing off at the side.
How do we bear witness to changes in our beloved places and landscapes?
Thank you @emergence_zine ❤️🌿
Around the world, scores of species of trees are moving north, or west, or upslope. What is at stake as the forests change around us? Explore this week’s story from Shifting Landscapes, “They Carry Us With Them,” by @ChelseaScudder and @Jeremy_Seifert. buff.ly/3RXtFeS
ALT Aerial photo of a coastline in New England with treeline and small islands fading into the horizon.
ALT Closeup photo of a hand with small pieces of bark cupped in the palm, and the edge of a tree trunk to the right.
ALT Photo of a man in a plaid shirt and white cap with the words "Native Pride" embroidered along the back. He faces away from the camera and towards the sunlit trees and ferns of a forest floor.
Trying to answer a toddler's profound questions:
My 3 yr old: "What are we made of?"
My husband: "Joy, wonder...tendons..."
Thank you so much for sharing @lithub!
On How Words Shape Our World lithub.com/chelsea-steinauer… @emergence_zine
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“The winds are blowing. Can you hear anything but wailing?”
Listen to this week’s podcast, “Speaking Wind-Words,” by @ChelseaScudder. emergencemagazine.org/podcas…
Photo by @RusselADaniels.
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We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Resistance and change often begin in art … the art of words. —Ursula K LeGuin
@LaurenElkin on facing extinction and becoming a climate activist @edbookfest 👏
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New Substack out today, from piping plovers to dinosaurs.
"Sense-Making with Piping Plovers" open.substack.com/pub/theent…
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On a visit to the Sandhills where she lived as a young child, @ChelseaScudder recalls the geologic and human forces that have shaped this land, and weighs the power of words to remake landscapes.
Read “Speaking Wind-Words,” with photos by @RusselADaniels. emergencemagazine.org/essay/…
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In this week’s newsletter, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder and documentary photographer Russel Albert Daniels, together glimpse what it means to listen for the prophetic voice of the earth.
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Thrilled indeed!! What a gift and honor to have this essay with the incredible @RusselADaniels in the latest @emergence_zine!
EM Vol 4 is a masterwork of design and a simply astounding curation of stories about shifting landscapes.
I’m so thrilled about this! @emergence_zine Volume 4 just published and it’s irresistible. Included is my photo essay illustrating @ChelseaScudder masterful, beautiful, heart breaking, soul-shaking essay – Speaking Wind - Words. The online version includes an audio reading.
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I’m honored and thrilled to have contributed a photo essay to @ChelseaScudder masterful story of colliding prophecies. The online presentation includes an audio version of Chelsea reading her essay.
Thank you @emergence_zine. This essay--a collaboration with the incredible photographer @RusselADaniels--was a labor of love and couldn't have done it without the EM team. Prophecy, wind, railroads, and prairies. And all that is both shaped and unraveled by language and intent.
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In this week’s essay, @ChelseaScudder considers the collision of prophecies that occurred on the Great Plains in the 19th century, forever altering the landscape. Read “Speaking Wind-Words,” with photography by @RusselADaniels. emergencemagazine.org/essay/…
Thank you @emergence_zine. This essay--a collaboration with the incredible photographer @RusselADaniels--was a labor of love and couldn't have done it without the EM team. Prophecy, wind, railroads, and prairies. And all that is both shaped and unraveled by language and intent.
On the wind-sculpted dunes of Nebraska’s Sandhills, @ChelseaScudder considers how places shape—and are shaped by—human language and intent. Read this week’s essay, “Speaking Wind-Words,” with photography by @RusselADaniels. emergencemagazine.org/essay/…
A Vanished Bird Might Live On, or Not. The Video Is Grainy. nytimes.com/2023/05/18/clima…
As this bird (maybe) reappears yet again, I'm sharing this piece I wrote about the ivory-billed woodpecker several years ago for @emergence_zine "The ivorybill has come to occupy a liminal space between extinction and existence." emergencemagazine.org/essay/…