Entwined: Celebrating our Connections to the Natural World

Date and Time

• Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025  6pm - 7pm

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Join us for an evening with Bridget A. Lyon in conversation with Lawrence Lenhart, celebrating Bridget's latest book, Entwined. The event will begin at 6:00 PM with a reading, followed by a Q&A and book signing at 7:00 PM.

Books will be available for purchase at the event. We encourage attendees to buy their copies from Bright Side Bookshop to support the author and our local literary community.

This event is free and open to the public! No RSVP required unless otherwise noted.

About The Book:

Entwined: Dispatches from the Intersection of Species explores these questions through a collection of fourteen original essays by Bridget A. Lyons, a wilderness guide, traveler, and explorer who has encountered countless animals and plants in their native environments. From Alaska to Honduras, Lyons's stories are braided with careful observation, scientific research, and wonder to foster the connection between us and our nonhuman neighbors. By focusing on the Anthropocene--the era during which human activities have had substantial impacts on the functioning of our planet--Lyons highlights the need to protect the planet's quickly diminishing diversity.

Each essay within Entwined seeks to keep nonhuman stories in the foreground, with Lyons's personal experiences acting as a backdrop. Some of these moments include navigating icebergs in Alaska while researching the nesting strategies of common eiders, witnessing the apparent demise of a humpback whale on the Baja Peninsula while instructing a wilderness course, and observing ibex while trail running the Alps.

While each piece can stand on its own as a literary examination of a creature's life and a facet of the human experience, collectively, the narrative invites readers to consider what they have in common with even the most seemingly foreign of species, such as sea stars and sponges. Entwined rests on the belief that when we take the time to know unfamiliar creatures, we are more likely to alter our choices and behaviors in ways that ensure their continued existence on the planet.

About The Author:

Bridget A. Lyons is a writer, editor, and explorer living with gratitude in Santa Cruz, CA, the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. Her work focuses on the entangled nature of our world, the intrinsic value of all living creatures, and the complexities of human and more-than-human relationships.

A graduate of Harvard University, she holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has had previous lives as a wilderness guide, yoga instructor, middle school teacher, energy bar maker, and graphic designer. Her award-winning essays have appeared in Crazyhorse, The Common, Flyway, Chautauqua, Catamaran, Cold Mountain Review, Tahoma Literary Review, and other journals.

When she's not writing, creating art, or helping her clients birth their dream projects, she spends a lot of time surfing and swimming the central coast of California, running and mountain biking in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and trying to perfect versions of her favorite Joni Mitchell and Led Zeppelin songs on guitar.