Alaska/NW Faculty Publications

Faculty Publications

2026 Faculty Books

Willy Vlautin, keynote author

https://www.willyvlautin.com

  • 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)

Andromeda Romano-Lax

https://www.romanolax.com

  • The Deepest Lake
  • Annie and the Wolves
  • Plum Rains
  • Behave
  • The Detour
  • The Spanish Bow

Bailey Williams

https://www.baileywilliamswrites.com

  • Hollow: A Memoir of My Body in the Marines

Organizing Faculty Titles

  • Jeff Brady: Skagway, City of the New Century (history), Best of the Skagway Police Blotter Vols. 1 and 2 (humor)
  • X’unei Lance Twitchell: G̱agaan X̱ʼusyee / Below the Foot of the Sun (poems)
  • Kent Fielding: River Church: Selected Poems 1990-2025Critical 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)