Terry Tempest Williams is a conservationist, advocate for free speech, and author of Refuge, a classic in environmental literature. She has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. She has testified before Congress on women’s health issues, camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda. Williams publications include An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her most recent book is Finding Beauty in a Broken World. Williams’s many awards and achievements include a Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, and the Wallace Stegner Award from the Center for the American West. Part of the Symposium on Wildness, Wilderness and the Creative Imagination and the Eco-Voices Series.
Photo by Mark Bagushkin.
View the complete schedule of symposium events:
Things Fall Apart: Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Cosponsored By:- Bioethics Program
- Center for Excellence in the Arts & Humanities
- College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
- Creative Writing Milieu
- Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
- English
- Environmental Studies
- Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
- Humanities Iowa
- LAS Miller Lecture Fund
- MFA Program in Creative Writing and Environment
- Wallace Chair for Sustainable Agriculture
- Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)
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