AUTHOR

Alison Hawthorne Deming

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Alison Hawthorne Deming’s most recent books are Stairway to Heaven (Penguin 2016), Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit (Milkweed 2014) and Death Valley: Painted Light, a collaboration with photographer Stephen Strom (George F. Thompson 2016). She is the author of three additional nonfiction books and four previous poetry books including Science and Other Poems, winner of the Walt Whitman Award. Her work has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center, the Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University and the Bayer Award in Science Writing. Former Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow, Deming is Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and Professor in the Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.