PORT TOWNSEND — Gardeners and bird lovers will enjoy the readings scheduled Saturday at Imprint Books, said owner Anna Quinn.
The free readings by Kathleen Alcalá and Leigh Calvez will be at 7 p.m. at the shop at 820 Water St.
Alcalá, the author of six books, will read from her newest volume, “The Deepest Roots: Finding Food and Community on a Pacific Northwest Island.”
“The book is replete with insights of longtime islanders who have gone back to the land (or sea) to produce food,” Quinn said.
“Kathleen’s interviews with them offer insights on what matters in the long run and what’s sustainable. She also talks about what she learned from local residents who have become food producers, gardeners and growers.”
Calvez is the author of the New York Times best-selling book “The Hidden Lives of Owls: The Science and Spirit of Nature’s Most Elusive Birds.”
Calvez studied humpback whales in Massachusetts and on Maui, along with spinner dolphins on the Big Island of Hawaii, Quinn said.
Her interest in the natural world led her to nature writing.
Her work has been published in “American Nature Writing: 2003” and in an anthology for Sierra Club Books titled “Between Species: Celebrating Dolphin-Human Bond.”
She also has written articles and essays that have been published in the Ecologist, Ocean Realm, the Christian Science Monitor, The Seattle Times, Seattle Post-Intelligencer and Bainbridge Island magazine.
