Annual Gathering

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN: What We Learn from Nature's Mothers in a Time of Unraveling (Broadleaf Books, 2025), and TINY WORLDS: A Field Guide to Small Wonders (Chelsea Green, 2027). 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. 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 writing can be found in The Atlantic, Nautilus, Terrain.org, The Common, Decor Maine, 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 works as Executive Director of Vermont Interfaith Power & Light and lives with her family in Rochester, Vermont.