Ernestine Hayes

Ernestine Hayes

Photo courtesy of Mary Catharine Martin/Capital City Weekly Ernestine Hayes Alaska Writer Laureate (2016-2018) and University of Alaska Southeast Professor Ernestine Hayes belongs to the Kaagwaantaan clan of the Tlingit nation. Her first book, Blonde Indian, an Alaska...
Colleen Mondor

Colleen Mondor

Colleen Mondor Colleen Mondor is a historian, reviewer and long-time writer on Alaska aviation. She is the author of The Map of My Dead Pilots: The Dangerous Game of Flying in Alaska and has also been published in numerous online sites and print magazines and...
Ray Troll

Ray Troll

Photo by Corey Arnold Ray Troll From his tree lined studio, high on a hill above the Tongass Narrows in rain-swept Ketchikan Alaska, Ray Troll draws & paints fishy images that migrate into museums, books and magazines and onto shirts sold around the planet. Basing...
Willy Vlautin

Willy Vlautin

Photo by Dan Eccles Willy Vlautin Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Vlautin started playing guitar and writing songs as a teenager and quickly became immersed in music. It was a Paul Kelly song, based on Raymond Carver’s Too Much Water So Close to Home that inspired...
Frank Soos

Frank Soos

Frank Soos Frank Soos has published two volumes of short stories, Early Yet and Unified Field Theory as well as one collection of essays, Bamboo Fly Rod Suite. Unified Field Theory was awarded the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. He is co-editor with Kes...