Terry Tempest Williams is an American writer, educator, conservationist and activist. Her many books include Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Finding Beauty in a Broken World, When Women Were Birds, The Hour of Land and Erosion: Essays of Undoing. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and the New York Times, as well as in many anthologies as a crucial voice for ecological consciousness and social change. She is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and writer-in-residence at the Harvard Divinity School.