An article written and read by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling, published by Broadleaf Books in spring 2025. Her writing can also be found in The Atlantic, Emergence Magazine, The Common, the EcoTheo Review, the edited poetry collection Writing the Land, and in Katie Holten’s The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape. She lives with her family in Rochester, Vermont.

Read the full article and discover additional content in the Spring 2026 Issue of From the Ground Up.