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E N T A N G L E DPeople and Ecological Change
in Alaska’s Kachemak Bay
M A R I L Y N S I G M A N
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Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth—from seals and shellfish to sea otters, herring, halibut, and salmon—in Alaska’s iconic Kachemak Bay. Kachemak Bay is a place where people and the living resources they depend on have ebbed and flowed for thousands of years. The forces of the earth are dynamic here: they can change in an instant, shaking the ground beneath your feet or overturning kayaks in a rushing wave. Glaciers have advanced and receded over centuries. The climate, like the ocean, has shifted from warmer to colder and back again in a matter of decades. The ocean food web has been shuffled from bottom to top again and again. In Entangled, Sigman contemplates the patterns of people staying and leaving, of settlement and displacement, nesting her own journey to Kachemak Bay within diasporas of her Jewish ancestors and of ancient peoples from Asia to the southern coast of Alaska. Along the way she weaves in scientific facts about the region as well as the stories told by Alaska’s indigenous peoples. It is a rhapsodic introduction to this stunning region and a siren call to protect the land’s natural resources in the face of a warming, changing world.
Marilyn Sigman is a specialist in marine education
and wildlife management who taught and served as a
naturalist guide for more than a decade in Kachemak Bay.
EntangledPeople and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay
February
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Nature
MARILYN SIGMAN
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“You might be in danger.” Thirteen-year-old Booker leads a sheltered life in Vermont—until a spellbinding relic throws him skidding into a world of magic and myths come to life. Anna is an Unangax teenager looking for answers after her long-absent mother reappears in her life. When a mysterious bookmark brings them together on the Aleutian Islands, they’re sent on a dangerous quest to return a magical amulet to Anna’s Unangan ancestors. As they adventure across islands that glow like moonstones, they cross paths with nineteenth-century chiefs, the mysterious Woman of the Volcano, and the sinister Real Raven. While their journey is tinged with the fantastic, it’s based in real depictions of Unangan culture and history—the first historical novel set in Unangan folklore. It’s a coming-of-age-story that will resonate with young adult readers on their own journeys to discover their personal and cultural identities.
Ray Hudson is the author of Moments Rightly Placed. He
is also the author and editor of several scholarly books
on the Aleutian Islands. A retired public school teacher,
he is a woodblock artist and poet who lives in Vermont.
Ivory and PaperAdventures In and Out of Time
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Young Adult Fiction
RAY HUDSON
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In the Quiet Season and Other Stories exploresthe human landscape of Alaska. While the stories take place in modern-day towns, each is laced with a timelessness that comes from their roots in ageless issues: broken trust and heartbreak, hope and rebirth. The expansive Alaska landscape infuses the stories with a unique chill, as tears freeze on eyelashes and mountain ranges form the backdrop for breakups. Although the people in Amore’s stories know how to survive Alaska’s cold terrain, these characters stumble when trying to navigate through their own lives and lost dreams.
The characters in Martha Amore's debut collection, In the Quiet Season and Other Stories, grapple with issues of trust and love–and sometimes in direct opposition to the expectations of the people in their lives. At their best, these wise and engaging stories radiate a surprising and redemptive light.
—Ron Spatz, Editor of Alaska Quarterly Review
Martha Amore teaches writing at the University of
Alaska Anchorage. She is the author of Weathered Edge:
Three Alaskan Novellas and coeditor of Building Fires in
the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and
Poetry.
In the Quiet Season and Other Stories
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Fiction
MARTHA AMORE
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A woman is a series of shifting possibilities. The frame that contained her in the morning can transform into something completely different by afternoon. The roles she’s called on to play mutate over the years and throughout a lifetime. And her very place in the world is called into constant negotiation. In this swirl of contradictions, finding her own self—her core—can be a bewildering journey. Woman Prime is about the fundamental human wish to settle into an authentic self, a
“prime” identity. It follows one woman through her roles—child, adult, wife, mother—and shows how she must remake herself through each new stage. Like many women, the speaker believed that leaving her parent’s home, falling in love, and raising children would reveal the essential core of herself. Instead, she learns that those she loves can fail her and that she must embrace a world full of flickering and conflicting expectations for women.
Gail C. DiMaggio is a writing teacher and poet living in
Concord, New Hampshire. Her work has appeared most
recently in Salamander, Slipstream, Tishman Review, ELJ,
and Magma.
Woman PrimePoems
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Poetry
GAIL C. DIMAGGIO
Since 2014, Permafrost Magazine has held an Annual Book Prize contest for the best manuscript. The winner of the contest receives $1,000.00 and publication through the University of Alaska Press. Each year, the book prize genre alternates between poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
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Just Between Us is a celebration of the vivid human connections that occur when traveling through some of the world’s most stirring landscapes. David McElroy, a former pilot, transports us from the Arctic to the tropics, over rural and urban lands, and even into the landscape of dreams. Throughout his verse is a sense of longing and a desire for intimacy, showing that despite our diverse lives, we are all driven to share our existences with one another.
"Just Between Us touches that sweet spot between poet and writer with its palpable appreciation of the many facets of the lives we are given to lead. Reading Just Between Us releases endorphins that allow us to embrace our own lives with an extra burst of energy, strength, and joy.”
—Merrily Weisbord, author of The Love Queen of Malabar
David McElroy lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and recently
retired as a commercial pilot of small planes in the Arctic
in support of wildlife research, industry, and wildfire
control. He has two previous books of poems, Making it
Simple and Mark Making.
Just Between Us
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Poetry
DAVID McELROY
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The cover image on this book—Tanana Chiefs, 1915—was painted by prominent
Alaskan artist Karen Austen and is printed with generous permission of the artist. The
large-scale oil painting, in the collection of the Tanana Chiefs Conference, is displayed
at the Chief Andrew Isaac Health Center, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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In 1915, Native Athabascan leaders met with government officials in Fairbanks, Alaska to discuss the impact of prospectors and settlers on their subsistence way of life. In this historic meeting, Native leaders sought education and medical assistance from the state, and they wanted to know what to expect from the federal government that might help preserve their way of life and allow them to take advantage of new opportunities. It had been forty-eight years since the United States agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia. Not much changed until the gold rushes. Then things really changed. This is the story of Native leaders working to understand and prepare for that change.
William Schneider has lived and worked in Alaska since
1972. He has spent time on the North Slope and in the
Interior documenting historic sites with Athabascan
elders.
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History
WILLIAM SCHNEIDER
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Native Leadership
Scholarship fund in the
name of Chief Peter John.
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