Deming, Alison Hawthorne
DEMING, Alison Hawthorne
DEMING, Alison Hawthorne. American, b. 1946. Genres: Poetry, Essays. Career: Worked in public and women's health care for fifteen years; University of Southern Maine, Portland, instructor, 1983-87; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, coordinator of writing fellowship program, 1988-90; University of Arizona, Tucson, director of Poetry Center, 1990-2000, associate professor of creative writing, 1998-. Visiting lecturer in writing at Vermont College, 1983-85; guest lecturer. Publications: Science and Other Poems, 1994; Temporary Homelands (essays), 1994; (ed.) Poems of the American West: A Columbia Anthology, 1995; The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence, 1997; The Edges of the Civilized World, 1998; Writing the Sacred into the Real, 2000. Contributor of poems and essays to periodicals and anthologies. Address: Dept of English, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]