Terry Tempest Williams lives in Castle Valley, Utah. Her books include
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place;
An Unspoken Hunger;
Desert Quartet;
Leap; and
Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert. Her most recent book is
Finding Beauty in a Broken World. She is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in
The New Yorker,
The Nation,
The New York Times,
Orion,
Parabola, and
The Best American Essays. She is currently the Annie Clark Tanner Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah.