X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell

X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell (Lingít, Haida, Yupʼik, Sami) is a Professor of Alaska Native Languages at the University of Alaska Southeast. Twitchell is an author of poems, stories, and screenplays, and is a filmmaker, musician, and Northwest Coast Artist. He is an Emmy Award winning screenwriter who wrote on the PBS show Molly of Denali. His first book of poetry, G̱agaan X̱ʼusyee / Below the Foot of the Sun, is available from the University of Alaska Press and the University Press of Colorado. Dr. Twitchell holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota, an MFA from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, and a doctorate from Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo.