Terry Tempest Williams will speak at the Shasta College Theatre, October 18, 2017 at 7:00 PM. Ms. Tempest Williams will be the next guest speaker of The Community Speaker Series, a joint effort by The Shasta College Foundation & The McConnell Foundation. Ms. Tempest Williams is an award winning author, activist and environmentalist. This event is free and open to the public.
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.
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; The Open Space of Democracy; Finding Beauty in a Broken World and When Women Were Birds. Her new book is titled The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux), the book honors the centennial of the National Park Service.
In 2006, Tempest 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. In 2009, Terry Tempest Williams was featured in Ken Burns’ PBS series on the national parks. In 2014, on the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act, Ms. Tempest Williams received the Sierra Club’s John Muir Award honoring a distinguished record of leadership in American conservation.
Terry Tempest Williams is currently a writer-in-residence for the 2017-18 academic year at Harvard Divinity College. 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.
Terry Tempest Williams is the sixth speaker in a series of lecture events sponsored by The Community Speaker Series, a joint effort by The Shasta College Foundation and The McConnell Foundation, designed to inspire, excite and challenge the communities they serve. The Community Speaker Series is dedicated to help deepen discussions and inspire positive activism on a local level for issues with global relevance.
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