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Alison Hawthorne Deming
Poet, Professor, Creative Writing, University of Arizona

A direct descendant of the great American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona . She is the author of Science and Other Poems (1994), selected by Gerald Stern for the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets; The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (1997), and a new poetry collection Genius Loci is forthcoming. Deming has also published three nonfiction books, Temporary Homelands (1996), The Edges of the Civilized World (1998) which was a finalist for the PEN Center West Award, and Writing the Sacred Into the Real (Milkweed Editions 2001).

Hawthorne Deming edited Poetry of the American West: A Columbia Anthology ; co-edited with Lauret E. Savoy The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World ; and published limited edition chapbooks.

Deming received an MFA from Vermont College in 1983 and had a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University in 1987-88. Her writing has won numerous awards and honors, including two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pablo Neruda Prize from NIMROD, a Pushcart Prize, the Gertrude B. Claytor Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Bayer Award in science writing from CREATIVE NONFICTION for the essay "Poetry and Science: A View from the Divide."

Her poems and essays have appeared in such magazines and anthologies as THE GEORGIA REVIEW, SIERRA, ORION, THE FORGOTTEN LANGUAGE: CONTEMPORARY POETS AND NATURE, VERSE AND UNIVERSE: POEMS ON SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS and the NORTON BOOK OF NATURE WRITING.

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