Live from Storyknife: August 2023 Recorded Tuesday, August 23, 2023 | 7-8pm via Zoom Leah Altman (Oglala Lakota) is a Native American transracial adoptee and was raised in the Portland area. She has written for several local and national publications, including Indian Country Today, Underscore, The Oregonian, Portland Monthly, Oregon Humanities, Portland State University’s Metroscape magazine, and Parents.com. Leah has an MFA in creative …
Live from Storyknife: July 2023 Recorded Tuesday, July 18, 2023 | 7-8pm via Zoom Jane Kalu studies Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Southern California. Her short fiction has been featured or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Boston Review, The Hopkins Review, Isele Magazine, Munyori Journal, and elsewhere. Jane is a graduate …
LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE SERIES: JUNE 2023 Recorded Tuesday, June 20, 2023 | 7-8pm via Zoom Kat Chow is the author of Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir, named a New York Times Notable Book of 2021. She was a reporter at NPR. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and on Radiolab. Renata Golden’s work has been …
READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: GERRI BRIGHTWELL Recorded Thursday, May 25, 2023 | 6-7pm via Zoom Gerri Brightwell is a British writer who lives in Alaska. She is the author of the novels Dead of Winter (Salt, 2016), The Dark Lantern (Crown, 2008), Cold Country (Duckworth, 2003), and Turnback Ridge (Torrey House Press, 2022). Her short …
LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE SERIES: MAY 2023 Recorded Tuesday, May 23, 2023 | 7-8pm via Zoom Kara Roanhorse, Diné, is a Ph.D. student in American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She is working on multiple projects focused on Critical Indigenous youth studies, Indigenous/Black feminist critique, and liberation movements. Her creative writing explores radical relationality, …
READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: KIM HEACOX Recorded: Monday, April 24,2023 | 7-8pm via Zoom Kim Heacox first came to Alaska in 1979 as a ranger with the National Park Service. A freelance writer now for forty years, he has authored more than a dozen books, five of them for National Geographic. He has twice won …
LIVE FROM STORYKNIFE SERIES: APRIL 2023 Recorded Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 7-8pm via Zoom Kia Corthron’s plays have premiered throughout the U.S. and in London. Her debut novel won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and was a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. Awards for her work include a Windham Campbell …
READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: HEATHER ARUFFO Recorded: Thursday, April 20,2023 | 6-7pm via Zoom Heather Aruffo is a writer based in Fairbanks. She holds an MFA in Fiction from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In 2021, she was awarded the Pen/Robert J Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. Her work has appeared twice in …
Watch a recording of this event: 49 Writers Inspiration Series: Caroline Van Hemert Recorded: Thursday, March 30 | 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM via Zoom Inspiration is a 49 Writers series in which Writer Laureate Heather Lende will interview some of Alaska’s premier writers about their work, process, and the writing life. Caroline Van Hemert …
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Watch a recording of this event: READING AND CONVERSATION SERIES: ANNIE WENSTRUP Recorded: Thursday, March 16 2023 | 6 – 7 PM via Zoom Bio: Annie Wenstrup lives in Fairbanks, AK. A 2022 Stonecoast graduate, she is also a Smithsonian Arctic Studies Fellow, an Inaugural Indigenous Nations Poetry Fellow, and a Storyknife Fireweed Fellow. Her …
