Terrence Cole

Terrence Cole

In the summer of 1970 Terrence Cole first came to Alaska as a 16-year-old, in an old Dodge pickup truck that groaned up the Alaska Highway from eastern Pennsylvania, when his older brother Patrick had decided to become a student at the University of Alaska.  The Cole...
Jonathan Evison

Jonathan Evison

Jonathan Evison is the New York Times Bestselling author of All About Lulu, West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, This is Your Life, Harriet Chance!, and Lawn Boy.  His forthcoming novel, Legends of the North Cascades will be published by Algonquin...
Nancy Lord

Nancy Lord

Photo by Irene Owsley Nancy Lord Nancy Lord, a former Alaska State Writer Laureate (2008-2010), is the author of three short story collections, five books of literary nonfiction including Beluga Days and Early Warming, and the 2017 novel pH. She also edited...
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...
Emily Wall

Emily Wall

Emily Wall Emily Wall is a poet and Professor of English at the University of Alaska. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Arizona. Her poems have been published in journals across the US and Canada and she has been nominated for multiple Pushcart...