FINDING A PLACE IN THE NATURAL WORLD AS A HUNTRESS

After thirty years cultivating fruits and vegetables, raising children, and teaching literature, Deborah Lee Luskin stepped out of her garden and into the forest. At sixty, it was time to age fiercely, overcome her suburban fear of getting lost in the woods and her urban reliance on street signs to know where she was. She wanted to forge her own path through the forest by following the deer. A dedicated locavore, Luskin didn’t want just to read the landscape, she also wanted to eat it.

Luskin overcame her ambivalence about guns as she gained a deeper understanding of the hunter’s role in the ecosystem of the northern forest. Her literary acumen helped her read the landscape and—as thoughtfully as she hunts for words—to hunt for deer. With the stories of Artemis, goddess of the hunt, childbirth, and wild nature to inspire her, Deborah became a deer hunter. Reviving Artemis is her story of finding her place in the natural world.

Advance Praise for Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress

'I don’t just want to read the landscape. I want to eat it.' READ THE ARTICLE

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“This engaging memoir follows the trail of how hunting deer grounded a woman more strongly in her community, the forest, and herself—truly a joy to read.”

—Tom Wessels, author of Reading the Forested Landscape

“Reviving Artemis is so much more than a story about a woman learning to hunt; it’s a story about following your heart, finding your passion, challenging your fears, and building confidence. It’s a story about growth and believing and trusting in yourself.”

—Judy Camuso, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife

“...an honest, tender and engaging story about building relationship with land and community, about conservation, about reciprocity and responsibility, about death and change, about choosing to step bravely and humbly into the unknown.”

—Ethan Tapper, forester, digital creator and the bestselling author of How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World
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About the Author DEBORAH LEE LUSKIN has been an editorial columnist, radio commentator, pen-for hire, and blogger. Her first novel, Into the Wilderness, won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Regional Fiction. She holds a PhD in English Literature and was expected to become an academic, not a deer hunter. She lives in Vermont.

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Catch Deborah Lee Luskin on her book tour!

Tuesday, November 4, 7pm Celebrate the Release of Reviving Artemis with Author Deborah Lee Luskin at Phoenix Books in Burlington, VT ​LEARN MORE​

Friday, November 7, 6:30pm Celebrate the Launch of Reviving Artemis with Author Deborah Lee Luskin in Brattleboro, VT! ​LEARN MORE​

Thursday, November 13, 5:30pm Deborah Lee Luskin to Discuss Hunting as Conservation and New Memoir at Harris Center for Conservation Education ​LEARN MORE​

Friday, November 14, 6pm Deborah Lee Luskin Brings New Memoir to Northshire Bookstore in VT ​LEARN MORE​

Tuesday, January 13, 7pm Deborah Lee Luskin Brings Reviving Artemis to The Norwich Bookstore in VT ​LEARN MORE​

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