Terry Tempest Williams, Writer & Environmentalist (December 2024)

The Merwin Conservancy will welcome author & environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams for a residency in December 2024. During her time in residence, she will also present a reading and talk at Maui Arts & Cultural Center on December 12 as part of our Green Room series.

A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, and Henry David Thoreau Medal for natural history writing, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of more than twenty books. She is known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, including the environmental literature classic Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Her most recent book is Erosion: Essays of Undoing and her forthcoming book, The Glorians will be published in 2025.

Williams is currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. She lives with her husband Brooke Williams in Castle Valley, Utah. Terry was a dear friend of Paula and William Merwin and mentored by both.