Terry Tempest Williams at WWCC Jan. 25

The Arlene and Louise Wesswick Lecture Series in the Humanities and Education at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs presents “An Evening with Terry Tempest Williams” on Thursday, Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m., in the college theatre. Terry will read from new work and from those books, such as Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, which are familiar to her readers. The reading is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow.

Terry believes that landscape shapes culture: “I write through my biases of gender, geography, and culture. I am a woman whose ideas have been shaped by the Great Basic and Colorado Plateau, these ideas are then filtered through the prism of my culture and my culture is Mormon. The tenets of family and community which I see at the heart of that culture are then articulated through story.”

Her other works include Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert, Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland, Coyote’s Canyon, Desert Quartet, Leap, An Unspoken Hunger, and The Open Space of Democracy.

Labels: humanities, nature, writers

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