Alison Hawthorne Deming  Poet, essayist, and editor Alison Hawthorne Deming, recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, has published six books of poetry and five books of nonfiction, with two books coming out in 2025: the poetry collection Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower (Red Hen Press) and the anthology The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, & Connection (Storey Press). She coedited with Lauret E. Savoy the anthology The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. She served as Poet-in-Residence at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens for the Language of Conservation; and the Milwaukee Public Museum and Milwaukee Public Library for Field Work, both projects sponsored by Poet’s House. Her other awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Borchard Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and former Director of the UA Poetry Center. Currently she is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada.