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"Whatever is already in us at birth we find again in stories...and in the flight of the goose."

Background Information

Grew up in the Alaskan Arctic and the Pacific Northwest in a multicultural family

Researched the effects of oil spills on arctic salt marsh, prime migratory bird habitat

Lived and worked overseas

Teach English at universities

Working on my next novel set in the near future

Accomplishments

Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North is used as a textbook at Boston University and the University of Alaska

It won first place in the National Federation of Press Women Communications Contest, the Washington Press Association Communicator of Excellence Contest, first place in the Alaska Press Women Communications Contest and was nominated for the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award (Finalist)

My work appears in "The Northern Review Journal", "Sacred Hoops" and "Cold Flashes" anthology

Taught at the Kachemak Writers Conference in Alaska

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Alaska Writers
book cover of Flight of the Goose, rave reviews and endorsements, calendar and links

Publisher: Far Eastern Press
presskit, reviews, past book tour calendar

Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
My literary novel set in the Alaskan Arctic in 1971, part eco-fiction, part cross-cultural love story between a shaman and a draft-dodging bird biologist. Released in 2005. Winner of three awards, nominated for the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. Used as a textbook at Boston University, University of Alaska and North Slope School District. Endorsed by leading arctic anthropologists, Native Alaskans, arctic scientists and literary authors.

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