The Arachne Project: Alison Hawthorne Deming

Poet, essayist and editor Alison Hawthorne Deming has published fourteen books and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two NEA Fellowships, the Stegner Fellowship from Stanford, and the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. Former Agnese Nelms Haury Chair in Environment and Social Justice, she is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona.

This short film is part of The Arachne Project, a gathering convened in May 2024 by the Spring Creek Project at Oregon State University, with support by the Shotpouch Foundation. A diverse thinking community of writers, conservation biologists, Indigenous leaders, philosophers and others came together to consider what emerging visions and values should guide conservation practices as the world enters a radically uncertain future. Learn more at https://beav.es/arachne.