Bridget Lyons - Dispatches from the Intersection of Species

What can octopuses’ nine brains teach us about climate resilience?
How can great horned owls’ keen hearing illuminate relationship dynamics?
Does playing with kelp cultivate respect for the value of living things?
What can our 8.7 million “more-than-human” neighbors teach us about life?

Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species explores these questions through a collection of fourteen original essays by Bridget A. Lyons, a traveler, explorer, and former wilderness guide who has encountered countless animals and plants in their native environments.

Set in locations ranging from Alaska and California to Mexico and Honduras, Lyons’s stories are braided with careful observation, scientific research, and wonder to foster connection between us and our nonhuman neighbors.

Bridget A. Lyons is a writer, editor, artist, and explorer whose work focuses on appreciating the creativity and diversity of the natural world and increasing our species' awareness of the creatures and landscapes with whom we share our planet.

She has an undergraduate degree from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University, speaks Spanish and French, and can proudly fingerpick her way through "Blackbird," "Helplessly Hoping," and "Landslide." She can't dance to save her life, is flummoxed by most simple repairs, and is trying like crazy to talk only to people, animals, plants, algae, fungi, rocks, rivers, and oceans and not to devices of any kind.