Nature, Culture and the Sacred: Terry Tempest Williams in Conversation with Nina Simons
In this intimate emergent conversation between two dear old friends, Terry Tempest Williams, one of the most sublime American writers to ever emerge from the deserts of the Southwest as well as a dedicated activist, conservationist, passionate lover of the natural world and one of our nation’s moral North Stars, will explore with Bioneers’ very own co-founder Nina Simons how to balance the personal and the political, the sacred and the mundane, the head and the heart, in this exceptionally challenging period in our history.
March 26th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Terry Tempest Williams
Award-Winning Author and Naturalist
Terry Tempest Williams, a writer, educator, and environmental activist known for her lyrical and impassioned prose, is the author of over twenty creative nonfiction books including the environmental literature classic, Refuge – An Unnatural History of Family and Place, and: The Open Space of Democracy, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, When Women Were Birds, and Erosion – Essays of Undoing. Her most recent book is the The Glorians – Visitations from the Holy Ordinary (spring ’26). A Recipient of Guggenheim and Lannan literary fellowships, Ms. Williams’ work has appeared widely, including in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Progressive, and Orion, and has been translated worldwide. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is currently Writer-in-Residence at the Harvard Divinity School.
Nina Simons
