Join Terrain.org for an online reading featuring award-winning writers Alison Hawthorne Deming, B.J. Hollars, and Catharina Coenen. The reading will be followed by a Q&A.

Registration for this online event is required. Zoom hosting generously provided by the University of Arizona.

  
Monday, November 27, 2025
5 p.m. PT / 6 MT / 7 CT / 8 ET

Poet, essayist, and editor Alison Hawthorne Deming, recipient of fellowships from Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Borchard Center for Literary Arts, has published six books of poetry and five books of nonfiction. Her two new books are the poetry collection Blue Flax & Yellow Mustard Flower (Red Hen Press) and the anthology The Gift of Animals: Poems of Love, Loss, & Connection (Storey Press). She co-edited with Lauret E. Savoy the anthology The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World. She served as poet-in-residence at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens for the Language of Conservation; and the Milwaukee Public Museum and Milwaukee Public Library for Field Work, both projects sponsored by Poet’s House. Her current work explores relationships between art and science. Her other awards include fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice and former director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona, where she is currently Regents Professor Emerita. 

B.J. Hollars is the author of several books, most recently Dinosaur Dreams: A Father and Daughter In Search of America’s Prehistoric Past (October 2025), Wisconsin for Kennedy: The Primary That Launched a President and Changed The Course of History, Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief, Go West Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail, Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians and the Weird in Flyover Country, and The Road South: Personal Stories of the Freedom Riders, among others. He and his film partner, Steve Dayton, have also completed a documentary: When Rubber Hit The Road. Hollars is the recipient of the Truman Capote Prize for Literary Nonfiction, the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize, the Council of Wisconsin Writers’ Blei-Derleth Award, the Society of Midland Authors Award, and both the Midwest Book Awards Gold and Silver medals. His work has been featured on C-SPAN, Lit Hub, Washington Post, Star-Tribune, The Millions, and Wisconsin Life. He is the founder and executive director of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild and the founder of the Midwest Artist Academy, as well as a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and a columnist for The Leader-Telegram.