Terry Tempest Williams, one of the most beloved writers to emerge from the red rock country of the Southwestern desert as well as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change, has, in her very full life, testified before Congress on women’s health issues and been a guest at the White House but has also been arrested in civil disobedience actions, camped in the remote regions of Utah and Alaska wildernesses and worked as “a barefoot artist” in Rwanda. Her books include: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field;  Desert Quartet; Leap;  Red: Patience and Passion in the Desert; The Open Space of Democracy; Finding Beauty in a Broken World; The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks; and Erosion: Essays of Undoing. Currently writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School, her essays have also appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Orion Magazine and numerous anthologies, and she has received a wide array of prestigious prizes and awards for her writing, environmental and conservation activism, and human rights advocacy.