Alison Hawthorne Deming

Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946 Hartford, Connecticut) is an American poet, and essayist.

Life

Deming is a descendant of Nathaniel Hawthorne. She worked in health care for fifteen years.^[1] She graduated in 1983 with a M.F.A. in Writing, from Vermont College, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. She was a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts. She taught at the University of Southern Maine.^[2] In 1997, she was visiting Writer, at the University of Hawai’i. In 1999, she was Lecturer at Center for the American West.^[3]

She has taught at the University of Arizona since 1980. ^[4] She lives near Aqua Caliente Hill in Tucson, Arizona.^[2] Her daughter is the artist Lucinda Bliss.^[5]

Awards

• 1998 Finalist, PEN Center West Award for Creative Nonfiction, for The Edges of the Civilized World
• 1995 Poetry Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
• 1994 Walt Whitman Award selected by Gerald Stern
• 1993 Pushcart Prize (nonfiction), Pushcart Press
• 1992 Gertrude B. Claytor Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, New York, NY
• 1990 Poetry Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

Works

• "The Dream of a Moral Life", UA Poetry Center

Poetry

• Rope (poems). Penguin Poets. 2009. ISBN 978-0-14-311636-3. 
• Genius Loci (poems). Penguin Poets,. 2005. ISBN 978-0-14-303520-6. 
• The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-8071-2230-3. 
• Girls in the Jungle: What Does it Take for a Woman to Survive as an Artist?. Kore Press. ISBN 978-1-888553-02-4. 
• Science and Other Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1994. ISBN 978-0-8071-1914-3. 

Essays

• Lauret E. Savoy, ed. (2002). The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. ISBN 978-1-57131-267-9. 
• Field Notes on Hands. Monograph Series #21. Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. 2007. 
• The Edges of the Civilized World. New York: St. Martin's/Picador USA. 1998. ISBN 978-0-312-19543-4. 
• Temporary Homelands. New York: Mercury House. 1994. ISBN 978-1-56279-062-2. 

Anthologies

• Alison Hawthorne Deming, ed. (1996). Poetry of the American West: A Columbia Anthology. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10386-7. 

References

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Poet Alison Hawthorne Deming on What Nature Teaches -- If We Listen", August 16, 2008, On Earth
• Interview with Deming on Words on a Wire
• "Interview: Alison Hawthorne Deming - MFA Program Director", Adriann Ranta, Editorial Department