Alison Hawthorne Deming is the author of Science and Other Poems (LSU Press, 1994), The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence (LSU, 1997), Genius Loci (Penguin Poets, 2005), and Rope (Penguin Poets, 2009); and four nonfiction books, Temporary Homelands (Picador USA, 1996), The Edges of the Civilized World (Picador USA, 1998), and Writing the Sacred Into the Real (Milkweed, Credo Series). Her new nonfiction book Zoologies: On Animals and the Human Spirit is out from Milkweed Editions.
