2027 Faculty Books
Vera Starbard, keynote author
- Park Survival: Lost in Alaska (Nov. 2026)
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“Kutulagaw” (2026 Tlingit opera libretto)
- Molly of Denali, (2019-2025, PBS series screenwriter)
Joey Clift
- We've Been Here the Whole Time! A Not So Sacred Guide to All Things Native America (Oct. 2026)
- "Gone Native" (Comedy Central digital series)
- "Pow" (Video shorts series)
Tessa Hulls
- Feeding Ghosts (2024, Pulitzer Prize winner)
Nancy Lord
https://www.writernancylord.com/
- Let Them Tell You (2026, stories
- Alaska Literary Field Guide (2026, editor)
- pH (2017, novel)
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Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale’s Truths and Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-changed North (2004, non-fiction)
Vivian Faith Prescott
https://www.vivianfaithprescott.com
- The Tide Book (fall 2026)
- The Divination of Salmon (2026)
- Whale Anthems (chapbook, spring 2027)
- Silty Water People (2024)
Caskey Russell
https://caskeyrussellbookeater.com/
- The Eagle in the Mountain (Nov. 2026)
- The Door on the Sea (2025)
Organizing Faculty Titles
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X’unei Lance Twitchell: The Lingít: People, Culture, and History (2026, Children/YA); G̱agaan X̱ʼusyee / Below the Foot of the Sun (2025, poems); Molly of Denali, (2019-2025, PBS series screenwriter)
- Kent Fielding: River Church: Selected Poems 1990-2025; Letters to My Daughters (forthcoming fall 2027); Critical Interpretations on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (editor), Before the Grave (editor), Chief Iffuccan (poems)
- Jeffery Brady: Skagway, City of the New Century (2019, history), Best of the Skagway Police Blotter Vols. 1 and 2 (2016, humor), The Race to the Midnight Sun (2025, co-writer/editor with John Firth - photo history of Yukon River Quest), The Quaking Aspens of Conrad (with Stephanie Ryan - poetry/art collaboration forthcoming spring 2027)
- Daniel Lee Henry: Across the Shaman’s River: John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the Opening of the North (history)