Alison Hawthorne Deming
Professor, English
MFA, Writing, Vermont College, 1983
Poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of seven books, including Science and Other Poems (LSU Press, 1994), Genius Loci (Penguin, 2005), and Writing the Sacred into the Real (Milkweed, 2001). Her newest book, a collection of poems entitled Rope, follows the paths of imagination into meditations on salt, love, Hurricane Katrina, Greek myth, and the search for extraterrestrial life. Rope will be published by Penguin this fall. Deming has received many awards for her writing, including a Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, a Pushcart Prize, two NEA fellowships, a Fine Arts Work Center fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner fellowship. She teaches creative writing at The University of Arizona.