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Listed as:

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Public address:

Tucson, AZ

Arizona US

Email:

aldeming@aol.com

Bio:

I grew up in Connecticut. I now live in Tucson, Arizona and Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada. A 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, formerly Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center and Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment & Social Justice, I currenlty am Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona. My most recent nonfiction books are A WOVEN WORLD: ON FASHION, FISHERMEN & THE SARDINE DRESS (Counterpoint, 2021) and ZOOLOGIES: ON ANIMALS AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT (Milkweed, 2014). Most recent poetry books are STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN (Penguin, 2016), as well as a collaboration with photographer Stephen Strom: DEATH VALLEY: PAINTED LIGHT. Much of my work focuses on the relationship between nature and culture, art and science, devastation and beauty. I have two books coming out in 2025: the poetry colletion BLUE FLAX & YELLOW MUSTARD FLOWER (Red Hen Press) and THE GIFT OF ANIMALS: POEMS IN CELEBRATION OF ANIMALS & THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM (Storey Press).

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Twitter/X:

AlisonDeming

Born in:

Hartford, CT

Connecticut

Raised in:

Avon, CT

Connecticut

RSS feed:

https://www.alisonhawthornedeming.com [2]

Website:

https://alisonhawthornedeming.com [3]

Prizes won:

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

Education:

Vermont College of Fine Arts–Writing

Agent/Agency name:

Laura Blake Peterson, Curtis Brown Literary Agency

Writers Retreats:

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference

Djerassi Resident Artists Program

Spring Creek Project

Vermont Studio Center

Yaddo

Identifies as:

European American

Prefers to work with:

Any