Living in Vermont – Helen Whybrow and Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder

Helen Whybrow’s The Salt Stones, set in Vermont’s Green Mountains, is a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land. Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder’s Mother, Creature, Kin asks: What can other-than- human creatures teach us about mothering, belonging, caregiving, loss, and resiliency?

Helen Whybrow is an editor-at-large for Milkweed Editions. She lives with her family in Northern Vermont.

Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder is the author of Mother, Creature, Kin. She lives with her family in Rochester, Vermont.

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