Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

Author of MOTHER, CREATURE, KIN (@broadleafbooks 2025)

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

I'm running two writing workshops this spring! Salt marshes, tides, Rachel Carson, and navigating edges in our writing. Learn more and register here! https://t.co/hYOZGrJ645

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them. https://t.co/EqfmO2InFv via @voxdotcom

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

“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.
https://t.co/4UoUgkCOOq

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

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. https://t.co/AyjddQTHgV

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

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. https://t.co/3PhfdLI35r

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

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.
https://t.co/scYYfv0JyL

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

How do we bear witness to changes in our beloved places and landscapes?

Thank you @emergence_zine ❤️🌿

[Emergence Magazine @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. https://t.co/Mi8iHfUf1W

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

New poem on substack! https://t.co/skACgHY3E8

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

Trying to answer a toddler's profound questions:

My 3 yr old: "What are we made of?"
My husband: "Joy, wonder...tendons..."

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

Thank you so much for sharing @lithub!

On How Words Shape Our World https://t.co/LwAFZYT9ub @emergence_zine

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

@doepublic @emergence_zine @RusselADaniels Thank you so much these kind words!

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

@ShernaKhambatta @lithub Thank you for sharing!!

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

“The winds are blowing. Can you hear anything but wailing?”
Listen to this week’s podcast, “Speaking Wind-Words,” by @ChelseaScudder. https://t.co/Ej7AKd31EA
Photo by @RusselADaniels.

[Katie Holten | Language of Trees🌳 | CRISIS 🇵🇸 @katieholten]

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 👏
https://t.co/F8rWzp31gl

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

New Substack out today, from piping plovers to dinosaurs.
"Sense-Making with Piping Plovers" https://t.co/naY33Kn3w0

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

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. https://t.co/PllxsBX2gP

[Emergence Magazine @emergence_zine]

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. 
https://t.co/yWz7Vtrmm0

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

@AlvaPolley @RusselADaniels @emergence_zine Thank you Benjamin!!

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

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.

[Russel Albert Daniels @RusselADaniels]

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.

[Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder @ChelseaScudder]

@RusselADaniels @emergence_zine @hannahbmerriman What an honor to work with you. Your eye and your images added such layers, depth, and beauty.