Bartlett Lecture Series presents author/environmental advocate Terry Tempest Williams on Sept. 13, 2010

Monday, Sept. 13, 7:30 p.m. Wendy Williamson Auditorium

NOTE: Today's related noontime panel discussion and audience Q and A on higher education's responsibilities to address climate change, with authors Terry Tempest Williams, Kathleen Dean Moore and Charles Wohlforth, is now posted on the UAA Podcast page. Find it here. Chancellor Fran Ulmer, who attended the noon panel, encourages attendance at this evening's Bartlett Lecture series, featuring Terry Tempest Williams.

Bartlett Lecture Series is proud to present author/advocate Terry Tempest Williams at the Wendy Williamson Auditorium on Monday, September 13 at 7:30 p.m. <!--StartFragment-->Lecture is free and open to the public; doors will open at 6 p.m. Parking is free.

Terry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice.

Williams, like her writing, cannot be categorized. She has testified before Congress on women's health issues, been a guest at the White House, has camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda.

Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classic, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, was published in October 2008 by Pantheon Books.

In 2006, Williams received the Robert Marshall Award from The Wilderness Society, their highest honor given to an American citizen. She also received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Western American Literature Association and the Wallace Stegner Award given by The Center for the American West. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction.

Terry Tempest Williams is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine, and numerous anthologies worldwide as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She and her husband, Brooke Williams, divide their time between Castle Valley, Utah and Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

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