Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams (born September 8, 1955), is an American author, naturalist, and environmental activist. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the desert landscape she was raised in has significantly influenced her writing, much of which concerns or is set in the deserts of the American West. Her works touch on a variety of issues, including issues of ecology and natural preservation, feminism, health/cancer issues, and the Mormon culture.

A Cloud of Swans »

By Terry Tempest Williams in the September 2010 issue.

Terry Tempest Williams offers an equation: “People plus place equals politics.”read more

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A Prayer to Awaken »

By Terry Tempest Williams in the August 2010 issue.

We can mark this moment not with our despair but with our creativity, not by our sense of helplessness, but by our engagement.read more

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Hard Questions »

By Terry Tempest Williams in the July 2010 issue.

Terry Tempest Williams ponders lessons from a book on King’s assassination.read more

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The Man With the White Hat »

By Terry Tempest Williams in the June 2010 issue.

Call me cranky, but as a Westerner, wilderness is not an abstraction.read more

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A Gift of Students »

By Terry Tempest Williams, May 2010 issue

What turns the world?
The only answer is the wing of wind, a wildness
veering through the treetops, bending the birches.

—Cleopatra Mathisread more

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Felon or Folk Hero? »

By Terry Tempest Williams in the April 2010 issue

Terry Tempest Williams praises Tim DeChristopher and the new monkey-wrenching.read more

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Dinner Party Diplomacy »

By Terry Tempest Williams in the February 2010 issue

Andrea Lewis was a friend of mine. She passed away on November 15, 2009, from a heart attack. The last time we were together was for The Progressive’s 100th birthday party in the spring. We shared a meal, a very long meal, the kind where time and space expand in the landscape of deep sharing.read more

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