Alison Deming is so prolific and has been writing for so long that it was a bit overwhelming to pack into a 20-minute interview, but we tried our best. Hawthorne is Regents Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona, where she founded the Field Studies in Writing Program in 2015. She has an MFA from Vermont College, a Stegner Fellowship, two poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and multiple other fellowships, residencies and prizes. Her new book, A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress, was released by Counterpoint Press in August.

Honorable mentions:

• Poet Pattiann Rogers

• Novelist and short story writer Andrea Barrett

• Scottish poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie

• Writer and curator Rebecca Senf

• Writer Pam Houston

• Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy

• The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu

• Guerilla Girls, an anonymous group of feminist activist artists

• Deming’s daughter, artist Lucinda Bliss