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About Deborah Lee Luskin
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.
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ISBN: 9781960573759
Pub Date: 11/04/2025
Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress
by Deborah Lee Luskin
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FINDING A PLACE IN THE NATURAL WORLD AS A HUNTRESS
Reviving Artemis is the unlikely story of a woman raised in mid-twentieth-century suburbia who lived in New York City as a young adult and moved to Vermont in 1984. For more than thirty years, she raised domestic livestock, kept bees, and cultivated fruits and vegetables while teaching literature and telling stories. But when she turned sixty, something shifted. Luskin was overtaken by a primal urge to step out of the garden, off the blazed trails, and into untracked forest by learning 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.
She persisted, using her literary acumen to read the forest 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, Luskin became a huntress, determined to age fiercely and compelled to tell this story of finding her place in the natural world.
Praise for Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress
“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
