Terry Tempest Williams details her search for her own voice in her memoir, “When Women Were Birds.” Her mother's blank journals were a starting point for Williams to begin a search into her own life and soul for meaning and purpose. The memoir explores finding one’s voice, birds, and Mormonism.
"Story," Terry Tempest Williams said in a 1997 interview, "bypasses rhetoric and pierces the heart." As a nationally recognized environmentalist, feminist, and spokesperson for the American West, Will...
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In several interviews, Terry Tempest Williams has said that she writes out of her own biases of gender, geography, and culture--as a Mormon woman from the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau of Utah. Jus...
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Terry Tempest Williams