The Merwin Conservancy’s Green Room series presents a reading and talk with award-winning writer, environmentalist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction, and Henry David Thoreau Medal for natural history writing, 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. Cash bar and light refreshments to follow. 

Terry Tempest Williams is author of more than twenty books 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. Currently, writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School, Ms. Williams is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Lannan Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction.  A member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters, she received the 2023 Henry David Thoreau Medal for natural history writing.  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.