Thank you Emergence Magazine. This essay--a collaboration with the incredible photographer Russel Albert Daniels--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.

In this week’s essay, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder 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 Russel Albert Daniels. emergencemagazine.org/essay/speaking…

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.  mailchi.mp/emergencemagaz…

I’m honored and thrilled to have contributed a photo essay to Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder masterful story of colliding prophecies. The online presentation includes an audio version of Chelsea reading her essay.

Thrilled indeed!! What a gift and honor to have this essay with the incredible Russel Albert Daniels in the latest Emergence Magazine! EM Vol 4 is a masterwork of design and a simply astounding curation of stories about shifting landscapes.

On a visit to the Sandhills where she lived as a young child, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder 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 Russel Albert Daniels. emergencemagazine.org/essay/speaking…

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 Edinburgh International Book Festival 👏 artreview.com/while-the-worl…

New Substack out today, from piping plovers to dinosaurs. "Sense-Making with Piping Plovers" open.substack.com/pub/theentwine…

“The winds are blowing. Can you hear anything but wailing?” Listen to this week’s podcast, “Speaking Wind-Words,” by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder. emergencemagazine.org/podcast/ Photo by Russel Albert Daniels.

Thank you so much for sharing Literary Hub! On How Words Shape Our World lithub.com/chelsea-steina… Emergence Magazine

Trying to answer a toddler's profound questions: My 3 yr old: "What are we made of?" My husband: "Joy, wonder...tendons..."

New poem on substack! theentwinement.substack.com/p/my-mothers-h…

How do we bear witness to changes in our beloved places and landscapes? Thank you Emergence Magazine ❤️🌿

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 Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder and Jeremy Seifert. buff.ly/3QlesDm

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 Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder and Jeremy Seifert. buff.ly/3M4T1Ue

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 Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder. buff.ly/3FoVqpf

“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 Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder and Jeremy Seifert. buff.ly/3sfRpR1

We know how to save these beloved endangered whales. Yet we’re mindlessly killing them. vox.com/down-to-earth/… via Vox

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/events