Author, environmental advocate to speak at UAF
September 10, 2010
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Award-winning writer and environmental advocate Terry Tempest Williams will speak at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Tuesday, Sept. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in the Wood Center Ballroom.
Williams is the author of “Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place,” considered an environmental literature classic, as well as multiple other books. Williams has testified before Congress on women’s issues, been a guest at the White House, camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses, and worked as "a barefoot artist" in Rwanda.
Williams was the 2006 recipient of The Wilderness Society’s Robert Marshall Award, 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. She is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah.
Williams’ lecture is part of the University of Alaska’s Bartlett Lecture Series. Admission is free, but seating is limited. Williams will also participate in an informal meet-and-greet from 1-2 p.m. in Wood Center Conference Rooms E and F.
ADDITIONAL CONTACTS: Cody Rogers at 907-474-6026 or cbrogers@alaska.edu.
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