Deborah Lee Luskin

Rosefire Writing Circle
2025-08-15 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-08-22 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-05 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-12 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-09-19 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom

Wednesday Writing Circles by Zoom
2025-08-20 17:00 - 19:00, 2025-09-03 17:00 - 19:00 | CA

All-Day Writing Retreat August 29th!
2025-08-29 | Deborah Lee Luskin, United States
Join me for an all-day writing retreat on August 29, where eight writers will write together and inspire one another in community and with support. Use the day to advance an on-going project or to explore whatever comes to mind. I will provide prompts for automatic writing. You will write, read aloud, listen and hear what you love. Beverages and snacks provided; you bring your own lunch. We will meet from 9:30 – 4:30 with breaks to stretch, walk the gardens, and socialize at a private home near Brattleboro, Vermont. Use the Contact page for questions and to register. Space is limited to 8. Payment in full secures your place. $100 if paid by August 15; $125 if paid after. Non-refundable unless workshop is cancelled.

Rosefire Writing Circle
2025-09-26 13:00 - 16:00 | CA
Write in community with support in the Rosefire Writing Circle, on-going since 2016. Meets most Fridays from 1-4. Contact me for more info.

Rosefire Writing Circle
2025-10-10 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-17 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-24 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-10-31 13:00 - 16:00 | Deborah Lee Luskin, United States
Write in community with support in the Rosefire Writing Circle, on-going since 2016. Meets most Fridays from 1-4. Contact me for more information.

Brattleboro Literary Festival - Spotlight Reading
2025-10-18 11:00 - 12:30 | Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro, VT 05301, 224 Main St., Brattleboro, VT, 05362, United States
I will be speaking briefly about Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress, my memoir about stepping off the blazed trail to find my way in the untracked forest, publishing on November 4. The book is now available to preorder!
Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress by Deborah Lee Luskin
Deborah Lee Luskin has been living and writing about Vermont for over 40 years.

Celebrating Reviving Artemis by Deborah Lee Luskin
2025-11-02 16:00 - 17:30 | Wild Book Company, 47 West St, Newfane, 05345, United States
Join Deborah at the Wild Book Company in Newfane, VT as she introduces Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress. Q&A and book signing.

An Evening with Vermont Authors Deborah Lee Luskin & Alexis Lathem
2025-11-04 19:00 - 20:30 | Phoenix Books, Burlington, 89 Church St, Burlington, VT, United States
Deborah Lee Luskin and Alexis Letham, will discuss their books about how their lives are informed and intertwined with the Vermont landscape, ethos, and social fabric.
Deborah Lee Luskin moved from New York City to Vermont in 1984 to write, keep bees, and raise daughters. She 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. Luskin has also enjoyed a long career as an educator, teaching writing and literature-based humanities classes to gifted elementary writers, college students, new adult readers, life-long learners, healthcare workers, and prison inmates. She holds a PhD in English Literature and expected to become an academic, not a deer hunter. She lives in Vermont with her husband, their dog, usually a cat, and a variable number of chickens.
Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress by Deborah Lee Luskin

Official Launch of Reviving Artemis at Brooks Library, Brattleboro
2025-11-07 18:30 - 20:30 | Brooks Memorial Library, Brattleboro, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, United States
Please come join me in celebration of Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress on November 7th at Brooks Library in Brattleboro.
Deborah Lee Luskin has been living and writing about Vermont for over 40 years.

Event at Harris Center on 11/13/25 has been CANCELLED
2025-11-13 | CA
Even though hunting plays a big role in conservation, anti-hunting sentiment reigns. This event has been cancelled.

Reviving Artemis at Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, VT
2025-11-14 18:00 - 19:00 | Northshire Bookstore, Manchester, 2869 Main St, Manchester, NH, United States
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.
Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress
Deborah Lee Luskin has been living and writing about Vermont for over 40 years.

Rosefire Writing Circle
2025-12-05 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-12 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-12-19 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-02 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-09 13:00 - 16:00 | Deborah Lee Luskin, United States
Write in community with support in the Rosefire Writing Circle, on-going since 2016. Meets most Fridays from 1-4. Read about Writing Circles here, or Contact me for more information.

Book Signing at ByWayBooks
2025-12-06 14:00 - 16:00 | ByWay Books & More, 399 Canal Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Stop by ByWay Books to say hello and buy your copy of Reviving Artemis. I’ll be signing books from 2-4. While you’re there, check out this lovely, independent bookstore supporting local authors.
Free Parking off Lexington Street, behind the store.

Book Signing at Village Square Booksellers
2025-12-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Village Square Bookseller, 32 the Square, Bellows Falls, 05101, United States
Stop by Village Square Books to say hello and buy your copy of Reviving Artemis. I’ll be signing books from 2-4.

Ninth Annual Writing to the Light Writing Circle for All
2026-01-04 13:00 - 16:00 | Moore Free Library, 23 West Street, Newfane, VT, 05345, United States
The ninth annual Writing to the Light Writing Circle led by writer and writer Deborah Lee Luskin will take place in person on Sunday, January 4 from 1:00 to 4:00pm at the Moore Free Library. The workshop will start promptly at 1 pm and end at 4. No registration required.
At this annual fundraiser for the Moore Free Library, writers of all kinds and all levels of experience are invited to reflect on the light in their life in a supportive writing circle. We will write to illuminate our inner light, honor our inner voice, and tell whatever stories rise to be told. Prompts and guidance for automatic writing will be provided. Collectively, we will create a safe space for those who wish to read their new words.
The workshop is free. Donations to the Moore Free Library will be gratefully accepted. Donations can be sent electronically at https://moorefreelibrary.org/ or by mail to 23 West Street, Newfane, VT 05345.
Deborah Lee Luskin has been teaching students from all walks of life, including inmates, healthcare workers, children, college students, adults and elders, for over forty years and writing professionally even longer. She has been facilitating the weekly Rosefire Writing Circle since 2016. Reviving Artemis, her memoir about aging fiercely, has just been published by Sibylline Press. Learn more at www.deborahleeluskin.com.

Reviving Artemis Book Talk at Wardsboro Public Library
2026-01-10 11:00 - 12:30 | Wardsboro Public Library, 170 Main Street, Wardsboro, VT, 05355, United States
Come hear author Deborah Lee Luskin talk about Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress, her new memoir about becoming a deer hunter when she turned 60.
Deborah Lee Luskin has been living and writing about Vermont for over 40 years.
Here’s what a recent reader had to say:
“Your memoir is such a powerful, insightful, and compelling exploration of what it means to shed long held fears, embrace unfamiliar skills, and step fully into the natural world with courage, humility, and curiosity. Your transformation from uneasy urbanite to confident huntress is inspiring, nuanced, and beautifully told.”
Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress by Deborah Lee Luskin
There will be books for sale at the event. Credit Cards preferred.

Book Talk at Walpole Town Library, Walpole, NH
2026-01-12 17:00 - 18:30 | Walpole Town Library, 48 Main St., Walpole, 03608, United States
I will be talking about and reading from Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress at the Walpole Town Library.
Come find out why I dared to step into the woods to follow the deer, and what I discovered in the process. You don’t have to become a deer hunt to overcome lifelong fears, but you do have to read this book to age with wonder and joy.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Reading at Norwich Bookstore
2026-01-13 19:00 - 20:00 | The Norwich Bookstore, 291 Main Street, Norwich, VT, 05055, United States
oin authors Deborah Lee Luskin and Ellen B. Rockmore for a reading from their new books Reviving Artemis and The Given-Up Girl!

At sixty, longtime writer, gardener, and teacher Luskin feels a wild new calling to leave the safety of her garden and learn to hunt deer. Reviving Artemis follows her late-in-life transformation as she confronts fear, embraces the forest, and reclaims a primal connection to nature while learning to age on her own fierce terms.
The Given-Up Girl: Bonnie Koller trades skirts for jeans and her innocence for independence when she attends Halstead College in 1969. An unwanted pregnancy forces her to navigate a pre-Roe America, a boyfriend consumed with fear of the draft, incompetent doctors, and corrupt hospitals put her livelihood at risk.Twenty years later, Bonnie is determined to find the daughter she bore and gave up–if the given-up girl even wants to be found.
Deborah Lee Luskin moved from New York City to Vermont in 1984 to write, keep bees, and raise daughters. She 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. Luskin has also enjoyed a long career as an educator, teaching writing and literature-based humanities classes. She holds a PhD in English Literature and expected to become an academic, not a deer hunter. She lives in Vermont with her husband, their dog, usually a cat, and a variable number of chickens.
Born and raised in Manhattan, Ellen B. Rockmore was once a New York lawyer. But for the past eighteen years she has taught expository writing at Dartmouth College. She lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with her husband and three children. Fortunately, only two of them play hockey. Ellen recently began a two-year term as a state legislator in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. Her essay titled “How Texas Teaches History” was published in the New York Times.
