The Making of a 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.

Raised in suburbia and long rooted in domestic life, Luskin spent decades teaching literature, tending animals, and cultivating the land. But at sixty, something shifted. Drawn beyond the safety of the garden and marked trails, she stepped into the untracked forest to learn to hunt deer—confronting fear, uncertainty, and the unknown.

Reviving Artemis explores Luskin’s fraught relationship with firearms, the imprint of personal tragedy, and the way stepping into the woods reshapes her view of both nature and her community.

Whether you come to this work through an interest in memoir, the natural world, or the enduring question of how we change, this is an opportunity to hear from a writer who has followed her curiosity into the woods—and returned with a story to tell.

The event is free and open to the public. A reading, conversation, Q&A, and book signing will follow.