Alison Hawthorne Deming

Author's Bio

I grew up in Connecticut. I now live in Tucson, Arizona and Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada. Formerly Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center, I'm now Professor and Director of Creative Writing at UA. I'm affiliated with the Institute of the Environment here and also Chair of the Board of Directors for Orion magazine. A new nonfiction book is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Rope (Penguin, 2009), Genius Loci (Penguin, 2005), Writing the Sacred Into the Real (Milkweed Editions, 2000), The Edges of the Civilized World (Picador, 1999), The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (Louisiana State University Press, 1997), Temporary Homelands (Picador, 1996), Science & Other Poems (Louisiana State University Press, 1994)

Anthologies:

The Colors of Nature, (co-edited with Lauret E. Savoy) (Milkweed Editions, 2011), Poetry of the American West (Columbia University Press, 1996)

Prizes:

Walt Whitman Award of Academiny of American Poets, Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowhsips, Fellowship at Fine Arts Work Center, Bayer Award in Science Writing, among others.

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Listing last updated: March 20, 2013

More Information

Listed as:

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

European American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Hartford, CT

Raised in:

Avon, CT

Agent:

Laura Blake Peterson