Alison Hawthorne Deming

Alison Hawthorne Deming. Courtesy Diesel, a book store.

Alison Hawthorne Deming (born 1946) is an American poet and essayist .

Life

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Deming is a descendant of Nathaniel Hawthorne. She graduated in 1983 with an M.F.A. in Writing from Vermont College, and then was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts.

Career

She worked in health care for 15 years. She taught at the University of Southern Maine. In 1997, she was visiting Writer, at the University of Hawai’i. In 1999, she was Lecturer at Center for the American West.

She has taught at the University of Arizona since 1980. She lives near Aqua Caliente Hill in Tucson, Arizona. Her daughter is artist Lucinda Bliss.

Recognition

• 1998 Finalist, PEN Center West Award for Creative Nonfiction, for The Edges of the Civilized World
• 1995 Poetry Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
• 1994 Walt Whitman Award (selected by Gerald Stern).
• 1993 Pushcart Prize (nonfiction), Pushcart Press
• 1992 Gertrude B. Claytor Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, New York, NY
• 1990 Poetry Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

Publications

Poetry

• Science, and other poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1994. ISBN 978-0-8071-1914-3
• Girls in the Jungle: What Does it Take for a Woman to Survive as an Artist? (chapbook/poster). Tucson, AZ: Kore Press, 1995. ISBN 978-1-888553-02-4
• The Monarchs: A poem sequence. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8071-2230-3
• Rehearsal Space for War. Tucson, AZ: Kore Press, 2003.
• Genius Loci. New York: Penguin, 2005. ISBN 978-0-14-303520-6
• Rope. New York: Penguin, 2009. ISBN 978-0-14-311636-3

Non-fiction

• Temporary Homelands. New York: Mercury House, 1994. ISBN 978-1-56279-062-2
• The Edges of the Civilized World: A journey in nature and culture. New York: St. Martin's Press / Picador USA, 1998. ISBN 978-0-312-19543-4
• Writing the Sacred into the Real. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2001.
• Field Notes on Hands. Deer Island, ME: Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Monograph Series #21), 2007. url=http://www.haystack-mtn.org/monographs.php }}

Edited

• Poetry of the American West: A Columbia anthology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. ISBN 0-231-10386-7
• The Colors of Nature: Essays on culture, identity and the natural world (edited with Lauret E. Savoy). Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2002. ISBN 978-1-57131-267-9

  

  U of Idaho MFA Nonfiction Reading Alison Hawthorne Deming Pt. 3

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

External links

Poems

• Alison Hawthorne Deming profile & 2 poems at the Academy of American Poets
• "The Dream of a Moral Life", UA Poetry Center
• Alison Hawthorne Deming b. 1946 at the Poetry Foundation

Audio / video

• Alison Hawthorne Deming at YouTube
• "Poet Alison Hawthorne Deming on What Nature Teaches -- If We Listen", August 16, 2008, On Earth

Books

• Alison Hawthorne Deming at Amazon.com

About

• Alison Hawthorne Deming at Kore Press
• Alison Hawthorne Deming Official website.