An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams

Abstract

Williams is the author of 15 books on topics ranging from the national parks, women’s health and democracy. Winner of the Community of Christ International Peace Award, the Robert Marshall Award from the Wilderness Society, the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award, a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Williams’s work demonstrates how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her 2004 collection of essays, The Open Space of Democracy, was the sustainability common read this semester.https://scholarworks.uni.edu/leopold/1004/thumbnail.jp