Marybeth Holleman Marybeth Holleman’s newest book is the poetry collection tender gravity. She’s also author of nonfiction books incluuding The Heart of the Sound and Among Wolves. Raised in North Carolina’s Smokies, she transplanted to...
Leigh Newman Leigh Newman’s debut collection of Nobody Gets Out Alive was published by Scribner in April 2022 and long-listed for the National Book Award. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, One Story, Tin House,...
Karen Russell North Words 2023 keynote author, Karen Russell, born and raised in Miami, FL, won the 2012 and 2018 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, Swamplandia!, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2011. She has received a MacArthur...
X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell (Lingít, Haida, Yupʼik, Sami) is an Associate Professor of Alaska Native Languages at the University of Alaska Southeast, and lives in Juneau with his wife and bilingual children. He speaks and studies the Lingít...
Marie Tozier Marie Tozier is an Inupiaq poet who lives in Nome, Alaska. Her book, Open the Dark, was published by the Boreal imprint of Red Hen Press in 2020. Tozier’s poetry has appeared in Yellow Medicine Review, Cirque, Alaska Quarterly Review and Catamaran...
