Terry Tempest Williams, "Erosion"

Terry Tempest Williams discusses her book, "Erosion", at Politics and Prose.

The award-winning author of books including The Hour of Land, Refuge, and When Women Were Birds, Williams is a passionate activist and conservationist whose work is rooted in the landscape and the spiritual traditions of the American West. In her new collection of essays, written between 2015 and 2018, she draws on that heritage to help her weather the twin scourges of Trump and climate change. Squarely facing the outrages of the desecration of Bears Ears National Monument, the weakening of environmental laws, and the destruction caused by prolonged drought, Williams turns to art and faith to find ways to endure the grief at all we’re losing.

Terry Tempest Williams is the award-winning author of The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; and When Women Were Birds, among other books. Her work is widely taught and anthologized around the world. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently the Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School and divides her time between Cambridge, Massachusetts and Castle Valley, Utah.

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