Hank Lentfer Hank Lentfer flunked kindergarten his first time through. When his book, Raven’s Witness: The Life of Richard K Nelson, won the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival, his older sister called to say she still had a hard time...
Laureli Ivanoff Laureli Ivanoff, Inupiaq and Yupik, is a freelance print and radio journalist in the fishing and hunting community of Unalakleet, Alaska. Laureli has written for the New York Times, was a regular columnist for Alaska Dispatch News and contributor to...
Tina Ontiveros Tina Ontiveros is a writer, teacher, and bookseller based in Oregon. She was born in Idaho and raised below the federal poverty line, living mostly with her single mother at the edge of the Oregon desert, but often with her migrating dad in small timber...
Tommy Orange Tommy Orange is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel There There, a multi-generational, relentlessly paced story about a side of America few of us have ever seen: the lives of urban Native Americans. There There was one of The New York Times...
Heather Lende, Alaska Writer Laureate Heather Lende’s work, mostly about life and sometimes death in Haines, Alaska, has been distributed widely, from The Anchorage Daily News and Christian Science Monitor to NPR and Country Living. She is a former contributing editor...