High school student Kevin Borden has a secret and his name is Louis Lannegan. He also has an overbearing mother. A tale of coming out in the shadow of parents and friends. Award winning novella.
'Coruscated Confabulations' is a collection of stories and experiences, most of which took place in prior decades. They are taken from or based upon real events, with a certain admixture of fictional embellishments.
"Whatever is already in us at birth we find again in stories...and in the flight of the goose."
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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.
Accomplishments
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
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