Grew up in the Alaskan Arctic and the Pacific Northwest in a huge multicultural family Learned (still learning) traditional subsistence ways of living off the land and sea Researched the effects of oil spills on arctic salt marsh, prime migratory bird habitat Studied Indigenous and ancient cultures and ecosystems; lived and worked in many societies on Earth Taught at universities Published writer of fiction (long and short), nonfiction article, poetry Interested in social and environmental justice, prehistory, archetypes, all the arts and storytelling...well, there is hardly anything I am not interested in.  

Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North is studied at Boston University, University of Washington, 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