Arts & Leisure

Nature’s Mothers: Local author explores spiritual ecology and motherhood in new book

ROCHESTER AUTHOR CHELSEA Steinauer-Scudder will publish her first book “Mother, Creature, Kin” on Tuesday, April 8. She will be in Middlebury at the Mini Ilsley (located in the National Bank of Middlebury) to celebrate her publishing day with a reading and Q&A.  PHOTO / IAN MACLELLAN

“They say you write the book you need,” explained Rochester author Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder, who is preparing to publish “Mother, Creature, Kin: What we learn from nature’s mothers in a time of unraveling” on Tuesday, April 8. “I wrote a book about spiritual ecology with a thread of motherhood woven in.”