Reading and Discussion with Helen Whybrow, author of The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join us for an evening with Vermont author Helen Whybrow, reading and discussing her recent book, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life. 

Helen Whybrow is a writer, editor and organic farmer whose book about shepherding, land and belonging, The Salt Stones, was longlisted for the National Book Award and chosen as a New Yorker Best Book of 2025. Her other titles include Dead Reckoning (W. W. Norton, 2001) and A Man Apart (Chelsea Green, 2015). She has a master’s in journalism and has taught writing at Middlebury College and the Breadloaf Environmental Writer’s Conference. She and her family farm and steward a refuge for land justice at Knoll Farm in Fayston, Vermont.

The event will take place in the Symposium, located in Bennington College's CAPA Building. The event is free and open to the public and co-sponsored by Bennington College's Environmental Studies program.