Join Josie Iselin and Ellen Litwiller for an event at Book Passage (Corte Madera) on Sunday, March 29th, in celebration of their awe-inspiring and stylishly illustrated new book, The Mysterious World of the Bull Kelp Forest.

This event is free and open to the public.

Josie Iselin is an artist, author, and designer who has been telling seaweed and kelp stories for over a decade. Her two books An Ocean Garden: The Secret Life of Seaweed (2014, 2023) and The Curious World of Seaweed (2019) display her profound understanding of seaweed natural history and her deep connections within the seaweed science community. Iselin directs content development for the Above/Below campaign and is the lead author of the campaign’s web story, The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp (bullkelp.info). She teaches in the School of Design at San Francisco State University and lives in San Francisco. josieiselin.com

Ellen Litwiller is a freelance illustrator working in the natural history museum exhibit industry as a muralist, illustrator, model maker, and preparator. She shows her paintings throughout the Bay Area. ellenlitwiller.net