![]() ![]() ![]() Wyoming has been part of our migratory path. I have loved learning the vocabulary of another state and the region of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem. We imagine ourselves in Wyoming for three or four years, and then we’ll be back to Castle Valley in Utah. Both Brooke and I felt privileged to be able to serve their vision. We had a thirty-year friendship with the Muries, who were among the great conservationists of our time. In October 2005, my husband Brooke took a job at the Murie Center in Moose, Wyoming, as executive director. Terry Tempest Williams: I would say that we haven’t moved, but we simply took a sabbatical. How has this change in “home ground” influenced your creative and contemplative life? Image: In the past several years you’ve moved from the desert of southern Utah to Wyoming. ![]() She divides her time between Wilson, Wyoming, and Castle Valley, Utah. She is the Annie Clark Taylor Scholar in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah. Williams has received a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in creative nonfiction, the Robert Marshall Award from the Wilderness Society, and the Wallace Stegner Award from the Center for the American West. Her most recent book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, will appear in 2008 from Pantheon Books. Her writing has also appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, Orion Magazine, and many anthologies concerned with ecological awareness, community, and social change. Terry Tempest Williams’ books include Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field Desert Quartet: An Erotic Landscape Leap Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert and The Open Space of Democracy. ![]()
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