Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of six books of poetry and five books of nonfiction, most recently A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress and Stairway to Heaven. Her forthcoming books are Blue Flax, a poetry collection from Red Hen Press, and The Gift of Animals, an anthology of poems from Storey. Her awards include the Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowships, the Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, and the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. 

Alison’s writing has been widely published and anthologized, including in The Norton Book of Nature Writing, and twice in Best American Science and Nature Writing. A former director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center and chair of the Agnese Nelms Haury Program for Environment and Social Justice, she is regents professor emerita at the University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada.