Reviving Artemis
The Making of a Huntress

Gutsy and determined, Deborah Lee Luskin steps into the woods and her community to observe and learn. Undaunted and deliberate she follows where the tracks lead, gaining comfort with the unfamiliar, a sense of connection, safety, and purpose.......more

Deborah Luskin has told a story unlike any other I have read. That should not be surprising, for it is a story of someone who sought to go off trail, into the untracked woods. Learning to hunt is the capstone, perhaps, but this book is about much more than hunting. I am reader who has not felt that......more

Goddess of the hunt & vegetation; chastity & childbirth; and, of course, of the moon, Artemis encapsulates many of the themes of Deborah Lee Luskin’s fascinating new book, Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress. Turning 60, Luskin turned from the garden to the forest, from wife & mother to huntr......more

Book Review: Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress by Deborah Lee Luskin Rating: 4.5/5 As a middle-aged woman who grew up hunting, trapping, and fishing, I found Reviving Artemis to be a deeply resonant and refreshingly honest exploration of one woman’s late-in-life journey into the wild. Deborah......more

I just finished Reviving Artemis! I loved it! The book ties up the intertwining narratives so beautifully- a book about killing a deer, but so much more. In many ways I found it a take on the classic quest genre, the same genre that saves many from post-trauma in early adolescence. And as a biologis......more