Kent Fielding Kent Fielding – teacher, coach, poet – has taught at Skagway School for the past 15 years and coached State Championship teams in Speech and Debate. Before coming to Skagway he taught in the Marshall Islands and at Jefferson Community...
Daniel Henry Dan is a co-founder of North Words. Recipient of the Pushcart Prize in 2000 and Pushcart Special Mention in 2004, Dan is a member of the Pushcart editorial board. He is the author of Across the Shaman’s River: John Muir, the Tlingit Stronghold, and the...
Photo by Elise Giordano Jeffery Brady Jeffery Brady has been involved in all things involving the written word in Skagway since moving to Alaska in 1978. Jeff grew up in Hickory, North Carolina and immersed himself in books early in life. He balanced a love of sports...
Photo by Kurtis Q. Lowe Katrina Woolford Katrina is a lifelong Alaskan and her roots in the state run from Tenakee Springs to Teller. She was born and raised in Juneau, her grandfather was a Fish & Wildlife Officer in the 1940s based out of Fairbanks, and her...
Buckwheat (in memory) Buckwheat Donahue was the founder of the North Words Writers Symposium. He lived in Skagway year-round from 1984 to 2018 and succumbed to various health issues on October 14, 2019 in Oklahoma City, where he had moved. He grew up in Oklahoma,...
