“Writing
is also about a life engaged. And so, for me, community work, working in the
schools or with grassroots conservation organizations is another critical
component of my life as a writer. I cannot separate the writing life from a
spiritual life, from a life as a teacher or activist or my life intertwined
with family and the responsibilities we carry within our own homes. Writing is
daring to feel what nurtures and breaks our hearts. Bearing witness is its own
form of advocacy. It is a dance with pain and beauty.”
― Terry Tempest Williams
Born in California on
Sept. 8, 1955, author, conservationist, and activist Williams focuses her
writing on the American West, influenced by the arid landscape of her adopted
state of Utah. Her work ranges from issues
of ecology and wilderness preservation to women's health.
A professor at the
University of Utah, 
she is recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award
from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award
from the Center of the American West at CU-Boulder. To read one of the great pieces of creative
nonfiction, pick up a copy of her memoir, Refuge: An Unnatural History of
Family and Place, a masterpiece of interweaving memoir and natural history.
she is recipient of the Distinguished Achievement Award
from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award
from the Center of the American West at CU-Boulder. To read one of the great pieces of creative
nonfiction, pick up a copy of her memoir, Refuge: An Unnatural History of
Family and Place, a masterpiece of interweaving memoir and natural history.
“Creativity,” Williams said, “involves
breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different
way.”
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