2026 Faculty Books

Willy Vlautin, keynote author

https://www.willyvlautin.com

• The Left and the Lucky (forthcoming April 14, 2026)
• The Horse
• The Night Always Comes
• Don’t Skip Out on Me
• The Free
• Lean on Pete

Richard Chiappone

https://chiappone.us/

• Uncommon Weather: Alaska Stories
• The Hunger of Crows (novel)
• Liar’s Code (stories)

Corinna Cook

• Leavetakings
• Permafrost Is an Archive and Other Inheritances from the Alaska-Yukon Borderlands (coming in March 2026)

Heather Lende

https://www.heatherlende.com

• Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small Town Politics
• Find the Good: Unexpected Lessons from a Small Town Obituary Writer
• Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: A True Story of Bad Breaks and Small Miracles
• If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name: News from Small Town Alaska

Coll Thrush

https://www.collthrush.com/

• Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
• Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing-Over Place
• Phantom Past, Indigenous Present: Native Ghosts in North American History & Culture (co-editor)

Organizing Faculty Titles

• Jeff Brady: Skagway, City of the New Century (history), Best of the Skagway Police Blotter Vols. 1 and 2 (humor), The Race to the Midnight Sun (co-written/edited with John Firth – photo history of Yukon River Quest, forthcoming Dec. 2025), The Quaking Aspen of Conrad (with Stephanie Ryan – poetry/art collaboration forthcoming late 2026-27)
• X’unei Lance Twitchell: G̱agaan X̱ʼusyee / Below the Foot of the Sun (poems)
• Kent Fielding: River Church: Selected Poems 1990-2025, Critical Interpretations on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (editor), Before the Grave (editor), Chief Iffuccan (poems)
• Daniel Lee Henry: Across the Shaman’s River: John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North (history)