Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and poetry, most recently Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit and the collections of poems Stairway to Heaven and Death Valley: Painted Light, a collaboration with photographer and astronomer Stephen Strom. Science and Other Poems, her first book, was selected by Gerald Stern for the Walt Whitman Award, and Edges of the Civilized World, a collection of prose, was a finalist for the PEN Center West Award. Her writing has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Orion, Best American Science and Nature Writing, and The Norton Book of Nature Writing. A 2015-16 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the recipient of numerous National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and is currently the Agnese Nelms Haury Chair of Environment and Social Justice and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and Grand Manan, New Brunswick.
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Books by Alison Hawthorne Deming
What does the disappearance of animals mean for human imagination? With a mixture of humor, reverence, and curiosity, this book paints a vivid portrait of the world that made us, and the wisdom we are losing as so many of its creatures fade away.
For centuries, the richness of our world’s diverse stories has been widely overlooked by readers of environmental literature. This collection works against this blind spot, exploring the relationship between culture and place, emphasizing the lasting value of cultural heritage, and revealing how this wealth of perspectives is essential to building a livable future.
In this book, the author describes locales that are dear to her because they are still shaped by nature: Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy; Provincetown, Massachusetts; Tucson, Arizona; and Poamoho, Hawaii. The farther we remove ourselves from wild settings, she argues, the farther we are removed from our spiritual centers.
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