Reading & Conversations

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/98213689765?pwd=dTRzQngzY0l2dkpKZ2hidHYyZ1hTZz09Meeting ID: 982 1368 9765AUTHOR BIODavid Stevenson has taught creative writing at universities in the West for over twenty years, and currently serves as Director of the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. An avid mountaineer, he has contributed fiction, literary non-fiction and essays to a number […]

Zoom Link: https://zoom.us/j/91746169184?pwd=MVRvbzFYeHljVStwZTRFcDRob2xsZz09 Meeting ID: 917 4616 9184 AUTHOR BIO Iñupiaq poet Marie Tozier is the author of the poetry collection Open the Dark, published in 2020 by Boreal Books/Red Hen Press. The acclaimed collection is a window to Iñupiaq life in northwestern Alaska and has been described as “a portrait of place, family and […]

Author Bio Tom Sexton was born and raised in Lowell, Massachusetts. He pursued undergraduate studies at Northern Essex Community College and earned a bachelor’s degree in English at Salem State College before moving to Alaska in 1970. Here, he pursued graduate studies at the University of Alaska, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts […]

 ERNESTINE HAYES was born and raised in Juneau, then spent 25 years in California before returning to Juneau in her early 40s. After her return, she graduated from UAS, earned an MFA in creative writing and literary arts from UAA, and became a professor at UAS, where she continues to teach today. She is the […]