Deb Vanasse

Deb Vanasse

Deb Vanasse Co-founder of 49 Writers and founder of the independent authors cooperative Running Fox Books, Deb Vanasse has authored seventeen books. Among the most recent are Write Your Best Book, a practical guide to writing books that rise above the rest; Cold...
John Straley

John Straley

John Straley John Straley is a novelist, poet and private investigator living in Sitka, Alaska. His tenth crime novel, Baby’s First Felony, is forthcoming from Soho press in 2018. His first book of poetry, The Rising and the Rain, was published by the University of...
Sherry Simpson

Sherry Simpson

Sherry Simpson Sherry Simpson grew up in Juneau, Alaska.  For many years she worked as a reporter, columnist, and freelance writer for newspapers and magazines in Alaska and elsewhere before earning a master’s degree in creative writing. Her most recent book...
Tom Kizzia

Tom Kizzia

Tom Kizzia Tom Kizzia is an author and journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and Outside Magazine.  His 2013 book, Pilgrim’s Wilderness, was a New York Times bestseller and pegged #5 on Amazon’s Top Ten Books...
Andy Hall

Andy Hall

Andy Hall Lifelong Alaskan Andy Hall is the author Denali’s Howl, The Deadliest Climbing Disaster on America’s Wildest Peak, a non-fiction account of the tragic 1967 Wilcox Expedition. Andy lived in Mount McKinley National Park as a child; his father was...