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  • Wild Side News featured an audio interview with Terry Tempest Williams on "The Open Space of Democracy." The interview is conducted by Sidney Wildesmith, Wild Side News host, and ran September 16, 2004.


  • Read "A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams," published in Delicious Living Magazine, Wise Words, October, 2003 issue, in which she speaks about a recent trip to the Arctic.


  • Read an interview with Terry Tempest Williams by Tricia Brick, in the Summer, 2003, issue of Etude, New Voices in Literary Nonfiction. Etude is published by the Literary Nonfiction Program at the School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon.


  • Q & A: Terry Tempest Williams, is an interview by Aria Seligmann, first published by the Eugene Weekly, now published on alternet.org on June 9, 2003.


  • Listen online to Pacifica Radio's (May 7, 2003) Peacewatch program with Terry Tempest Williams, Richard Nelson, and Barry Lopez interviewed by Verna Avery Brown on the topic of "What is the true meaning of patriotism?" a lengthy and very interesting conversation. (Requires Real Audio or mpg player. Interview starts about halfway through the hour.) Also, The Nature of Patriotism, Vol. 4 No 26, Radio High Country News, January 13, 2003, includes an interview with Terry Tempest Williams. Terry reads an excerpt from "One Patriot," an essay about Rachel Carson, which is included in "Patriotism and the American Land," a book of essays published by the Orion Society. (Requires Real Audio plugin.)


  • The Nature of Patriotism, Vol. 4 No 26, Radio High Country News, January 13, 2003, includes an interview with Terry Tempest Williams. Terry reads an excerpt from "One Patriot," an essay about Rachel Carson, which is include in "Patriotism and the American Land," a book of essays published by the Orion Society. Requires real audio plugin.


  • Read an interview with Terry Tempest Williams entitled "Testimony, Refuge, and the Sense of Place - A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams," by David Thomas Sumner, in the Spring/Summer 2002 issue of Weber Studies (Volume 19.3).


  • Brief audio interview with Terry Tempest Williams by Melinda Tuhus on Between the Lines, a weekly radio newsmagazine which is part of WPKN radio in Bridgeport, CT, for the week ending July 19, 2002. Terry discusses her bond with photographer Emmet Gowin, the impact of Gowin's images, the American Southwest, downwinders, nuclear testing, the Nevada Test Site, and the necessity of bearing witness. Requires Real Audio plugin.


  • A commentary on Homeland Security and the Fate of Public Lands by Terry Tempest Williams is available on Now with Bill Moyers (PBS) website, March 8, 2002. The full program transcript is available here.


  • "The Politics of Place" with Terry Tempest Williams. A conversation with prize-winning author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams about the meaning of home, community, and our changing relationship to the land. May, 1995, Santa Barbara, CA. Interview by Scott London, on the website Insight & Outlook. Insight & Outlook was a weekly public radio series which aired on NPR. Full Transcript.


  • Interview by Susan Ives, entitled "A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams, 11/12/00, on the Trust for Public Land website.


  • Interview regarding LEAP on Pantheon Books' website.


  • Interview entitled "Erosional Spirituality", by Julie A. Wortman, in A Global Witness, which publishes the online magazine, The Witness, April 2001, with great accompanying photos.


  • Listing of an interview with Terry Tempest Williams entitled "Lighting the Match", in Whole Terrain, 2000-2001, Serious Play. Listing only, not the interview itself.