Book Talk at Walpole Town Library, Walpole, NH
2026-01-12 17:00 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | 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 (America/New_York) | 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.

Rosefire Writing Circle
2026-01-16 13:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | 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.
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Rosefire Writing Circle
2026-01-23 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-30 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-13 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-20 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-02-27 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-06 13:00 - 16:00, 2026-03-13 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) and 6 more dates | 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.

Author Visit with Reviving Artemis at Springfield Town Library
2026-02-26 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Springfield Town Library, Springfield, VT, 43 Main Street, Springfield, VT, 05150, United States
Discover the woods like never before with Deborah Lee Luskin! At sixty, she left the marked trails behind to learn from the forest itself—finding unexpected lessons, skills, and a deeper connection to the land. Set in Vermont and shaped by its forests, Reviving Artemis is a heartfelt exploration of aging, self-reliance, and our place in nature.
Village Booksellers from Bellows Falls will be selling copies. Don’t miss this chance to meet the author!

Live Interview on The Maine Outdoors
2026-03-01 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Voice of Main Radio
Tune in Sunday March 1 at 7:00pm to The Maine Outdoors as host Christine Gordon interviews me about Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress. The Voice of Maine Radio
Learn more about Deborah and her memoir here.

Author Talk: Deborah Lee Luskin Speaks about her memoir, Reviving Artemis
2026-03-03 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Brewer Public Library, 100 S. Main St, Brewer, ME, 04412, United States
Join author Deborah Luskin as she discusses her memoir, Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress. Reviving Artemis is the unlikely story of a literature teacher that raised domestic livestock, kept bees, and cultivated fruits and vegetables, who, at the age of sixty, was overtaken by a primal urge to step out of the garden, off the blazed trails, and into untracked forest to learn to hunt deer. Deeply personal, lyrically told, and funny, Reviving Artemis reveals Luskin’s ambivalence about guns and her fear of entering the forest alone in the dark.
Briar Patch Books will have copies of Reviving Artemis for sale at this event.

Deborah Lee Luskin moved from New York City to Vermont in 1984 to write, garden, keep bees, and raise daughters. 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. Luskin has also enjoyed a long career as an educator, teaching writing and literature-based humanities to gifted elementary writers, college students, new adult readers, lifelong learners, healthcare workers, and prison inmates. She lives with her husband in Southern Vermont.
Deborah has just been named an Artemis Ambassador by the National Wildlife Federation.
Deborah Lee Luskin has been living and writing about Vermont for over 40 years.

Cousins in Conservation
2026-04-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Keene Public Library, 60 Winter St, Keene, NH, 03431, United States
Join cousins and writers Susie Spikol and Deborah Lee Luskin in conversation about their work and recent publications.
Cousins Susie Spikol and Deborah Lee Luskin were both born in New York, both grew up on pavement, and have now been living in northern New England for decades, Susie in New Hampshire and Deborah in Vermont. Susie is a writer, educator, and naturalist; Deborah is writer, educator, and deer hunter.
Susie is the author of three books: The Animal Adventurers Guide, Forest Magic for Kids, and The Book of Fairies. Deborah is the author of two: Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress, a memoir, and Into the Wilderness, a novel.
These two word-loving and wise women invite you to join them at the Keene Public Library for “Cousins in Conservation,” where we discuss our different paths to similar ends: a deep love for the northern forest, language, and stories.

Book Group Author Visit
2026-04-30 15:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Private Event
Author visit to Book Group. Private Event.
Would you like me to facilitate a discussion about one of my books at your book group? Contact me. In your email, tell me about your book, where and when you meet, and which book you want discuss. We’ll work together to plan an author visit, either in person or by video.

Deborah Lee Luskin to Visit Lathem Library in Thetford, Vermont
2026-04-30 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Latham Library, Thetford, 16 Library Road, Thetford, 05074
Deborah Lee Luskin will facilitate a book discussion about her memoir, Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress.

"Second Chances in Fiction & LIfe" at Tusten Social's Sage Session
2026-05-07 13:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | DVAA, 37 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY, 12764, United States
I will speak about how the freedom of aging has allowed me second chances to do what I’d always dreamed of, using examples from my life and both my published books.
Lunch, Socializing, Talk, Q&A, Books for sale & signing.

Nature-Based Memoir Writing Circle in Narrowsburg, NY
2026-05-08 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Private Home – Revealed upon Registration, Narrowsburg, NY, United States
Join me in a Nature-Based Memoir Writing Circle, Friday, May 8, from 5-8 in Narrowsburg, NY.
Writing Circles help writers of any ability to overcome the fear, loneliness, and procrastination by writing in community with support. I create a safe space and provide prompts for timed writing exercises designed to prime the creative pump.
Participants focus and fly, letting loose the unknown in the wonder of words. Those who wish may read this new work aloud while all participants bear witness to the strange and wonderful stories that emerge. I teach a positive response practice that engenders a synergy where participants invariably write more, write better, and write with greater confidence.
This nature-based writing circle will use prompts from the natural world to poke memory and provide imagery. We will spend some time outdoors, and a light meal will be served.
Registration and payment information here.

Book Talk: Reviving Artemis with author Deborah Lee Luskin
2026-05-09 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | the 108, 108 Main Street, Narrowsburg, 12764, United States
The Making of Huntress, Author Talk with Deborah Lee Luskin
Join One Grand Books at the 108 for a special afternoon with Deborah Lee Luskin, author of Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress, a memoir of transformation, risk, and later-in-life awakening. This was an unquestionably heroic journey–both walking into the woods in the dark with a rifle and writing this deeply personal story. And the journey isn’t over: Luskin is now an Artemis Ambassador for the National Wildlife Federation, “committed to building a community dedicated to Artemis’ wild spirit and conservation ethos.”
This program is co-sponsored by the 108 and One Grand Books. It will take place at 108 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY. One Grand Books will have books for sale and signing.
Free. Reservations made at Event Website below.

Three Authors Explore Jewish Identity in Their Fiction
2026-05-28 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Congretation Chochmat HaLev, 2215 Prince St, Berkeley, CA, 94705, United States
3 Authors Explore Jewish Identity in Fiction
JOIN authors Valerie Stoller, Pamela Reitman, and me, speaking about our historical novels starring Jewish women.
Valerie Stoller is the author of Shipyard Gals. Set in 1944, it follows a Latina journalist, a Jewish nurse, and a Black riveter all working at the Chicago shipyard and facing danger and prejudice of all kinds.
Pamela Reitman is the author of Charlotte Salomon Paints Her Life, a fictional retelling of the real life artist whose monumental work, “Life? Or Theater?” survived the Holocaust. Charlotte did not.
I will be introducing Rose Mayer, a twice-widowed New York Jewish woman and star of my award-winning novel, Into the Wilderness set in 1964 Vermont. Into the Wilderness is a silver love story, a story about starting over again in new place.
Light refreshments will be served, and books will be available for purchase and signing.

Bay Area Book Festival 2026
2026-05-31 11:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Bay Area Book Festival, 2061 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA, 94704, United States
I’ll be at the Bay Area Book Festival 2026!
Stop by and say hello at the Bookworm Block Party! I’ll be at the Sibylline Booth, meeting, greeting, and signing books. Read on!

Into the Wilderness with Rhoda Goldman Book Group, San Francisco
2026-06-01 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Rhoda Goldman Plaza, 2180 Post St, San Francisco, CA, United States
“a perfectly gratifying read”
Into the Wilderness, hailed as “a fiercely intelligent love story,” is an award-winning novel about two sixty-somethings at inflection points in their lives.
Rose Mayer has just buried her second husband and wonders what she’s going to do with the rest of her life. Reluctantly, she visits her son’s summer place in Vermont, where there are neither sidewalks, Democrats, nor other Jews. She meets Percy Mendell at the Orton Fourth of July book sale and takes an immediate dislike.
Percy’s a born and bred Vermonter who has never married, never voted for a Democrat, and never left the state. After a satisfying career as the county’s agricultural agent, he’s facing retirement and doesn’t know what he’ll do unmoored from work. He meets Rose again at the Marlboro Music Festival, where music becomes their common language. Set against the backdrop of Vermont’s changing politics and seasons, Into the Wilderness is testament to the endurance of the human heart.
This story of silver love is set in small-town Vermont in 1964, where “Luskin weaves together an enchanting tale of solitude, friendship, and romance.” ~The Jewish Advocate

Book Discussion of Into the Wilderness
2026-06-01 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
“a perfectly gratifying read”
I will be facilitating a discussion of Into the Wilderness for a private book group in Petaluma.
Interested in learning about how Vermont shifted from deep red to deep blue? Let’s talk about Into the Wilderness, set in 1964, when Vermont started to tilt left. Lots happened in 1964 that continues to be pertinent today: Who gets to vote? How do we welcome that stranger? Is it ever too late to fall in love? Learn more about this award-winning love story here. And contact me to speak to your book group, historical society, library, or social club.
I’m available to speak about Reviving Artemis to your book group, conservation organization, or women’s group? We can make it happen. Contact me!
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