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"Whatever is already in us at birth we find again in stories...and in the flight of the goose."
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Background
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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
Interested in social and environmental justice, prehistory, archetypes, all the arts and storytelling...well, there is hardly anything I am not interested in.
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Accomplishments
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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
Very happy to see a good review in Austrian newspaper "Die Presse" and to learn my book was read by Sami in Norway, Aboriginal tribes in AU, Blackfoot Indian community college students and even someone in Washington DC: the goose has flown far across the Earth.
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Additional Information
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Flight of the Goose is now in Kindle and also is available free on a "scholarship" for those with economic hardship, if you contact me.
Working on my next novel, speculative fiction set in the near future with themes of climate change, peak oil, collapse and transition
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Favorite Links
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Alaska Writers
book cover of Flight of the Goose, rave reviews and endorsements, calendar and links
My blog
"Notes From the Otherworld"
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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It is also in Kindle edition
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