by Deborah Lee Luskin | Feb 16, 2026
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.
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jul 23, 2025 | Living in Place
Artemis was a huntress. I come from a family of bargain hunters, not deer hunters. I didn’t become a deer hunter until I turned 60. I’m a sustenance hunter, not a trophy hunter. I hunt deer so I can eat local, wild, organic meat. In the process of learning to hunt, I...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Jun 25, 2025 | Living in Place
How Long Does It Take to Write a Book? When my dad was ninety-one, he asked me, “How long does it take to write a book?” I told him, “Your whole life.” I wasn’t wrong, but the answer is more nuanced than that. That was ten years ago, when I was embarking on a new...
by Deborah Lee Luskin | Dec 8, 2023 | Living in Place
My hunting mentor says, “You can’t get a deer if you’re not in the woods” so often that I now say it to myself as I head out before dawn, even on those mornings when I’d rather walk to my word shop, where there’s a wood stove. “But you can’t get a deer if you’re not...
