Seaside Series: Marnie Reed Crowell
July 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
The Heron Witch
Marnie Reed Crowell will read from her new young adult novel The Heron Witch, published by Green Writers Press in February 2025, followed by a conversation and book signing.
About The Heron Witch
When city girl Nancy moves to a small coastal Maine town she meets Mariner, the Great Blue heron with a GPS tracking device on its back. We follow the actual tracking data of this real-life heron through the story as a lobster fisherman’s son and a mysterious naturalist with an uncanny way with animals take Nancy in hand with engaging results.
Marnie collaborated with Danielle D’Auria, a wildlife biologist who works in the Bird Group at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife, on the Heron Tracking Project data used in the novel.
Author Bio
Marnie Reed Crowell is a natural history writer with an MS in biology from University of Pennsylvania. She is married to Ken Crowell, a retired ecology professor who taught at St Lawrence University. She has written a number of books based on nature such as Great Blue: The Odyssey of a Great Blue Heron (Times Books 1980), as well as magazine articles for such publications as Audubon, Natural History, and others.
The rain venue for all Seaside Series programs is SPL, 64 Main Street.