152 Sports, but currently teach, hike, and write in the Portland, Oregon area. I have published poems in Rune, The Mountain Gazette, Windfall, The Clackamas Literary Review, The Raven Chronicles, Perceptions, and Cirque; and was awarded the Oregon Poetry Association’s 2015 New Poet’s Award. Richard Little is a retired attorney and government lobbyist who’s lived in the Pacific Northwest for over thirty-five years. His work has been published in the Santa Fe Writers Project, the Seattle Times, and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He has also published a collection of short stories, Postcards from the Road. Other work of his can be found at “The Write Stuff,” http://pepys2000.blogspot.com. He is currently working on a novel. Nancy Lord, a former Alaska Writer Laureate (2008-10), is the author of several books of fiction and nonfiction. Most recently she edited the anthology Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project. She teaches creative writing in the University of Alaska Anchorage’s MFA program and science writing in the on-line Johns Hopkins graduate science writing program. She lives in Homer, Alaska. Jerry Dale McDonnell is a writer, actor, retired bush teacher and bear viewing and wilderness guide. His creative work, ranging from fiction to nonfiction, to plays, journalism and poetry, has been published over the years in many publications, some not easy to find like South Dakota Review, Over the Transom, MungBeing, Dead Snakes, Cirque (okay not hard to find) & others. Download the free E-Book: Alaska Sampler,2015 from runningfoxbooks.com for his short story, “Winter Too Short, Too Loud.” Much of his published work can be found on his blog: alaskareflections. blogspot.com (He hasn’t created a web site; doesn’t know how.). David McElroy lives in Anchorage, Alaska and works as a professional pilot in the Arctic. He has been published in national journals and has a previous book of poems called Making It Simple. Finishing Line Press is coming out this fall with his new book Mark Making. He is an award winner of grants from the National Council on the Arts and the State of Alaska Council on the Arts and Humanities. He and his wife photographer Edith Barrowclough and son Brandon travel extensively. Ron McFarland teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Idaho. His recent books include a study of regional memoir, The Rockies in First Person (2008), Appropriating Hemingway: Using Him as a Fictional Character (2015), and a biography, Edward J. Steptoe and the Indian Wars (2016). Pecan Grove Press published Ron’s fourth full-length book of poems, Subtle Thieves, in early 2012. Chapin House Books published his memoir of growing up in Florida, Confessions of a Night Librarian and Other Embarrassments, in 2005. Current projects include a small book of his essays and poems on angling, title to be decided. DC McKenzie: Long a spoken word artist of some acclaim, both in Alaska and the lower 48, DC McKenzie recently began submitting his work and quickly won notice in F Magazine’s, F’Air Words competition. He won the gold, his first year out, with “Throw Your Heart at Gaza.” A year later, he won silver, so to speak, with, “Light of No Moon.” Not only that, though somewhat new to the quest for publication, DC has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Kim Melton writes and homesteads from a tiny cabin nestled at the toe of Lorne Mountain, south of Whitehorse, Yukon. An avid naturalist, she uses the written word to continue her explorations of the wild outdoors beyond the immersive experience. She writes a regular column on foraging and dabbles in a variety of other vocations including those of wildlife biologist, organic farmer, and musician. A nine-time Pushcart Prize nominee and National Park Artist-in-Residence, Karla Linn Merrifield has had 500+ poems appear in dozens of publications. She has eleven books to her credit, the newest of which is
CIRQUE Bunchberries, More Poems of Canada, a sequel to Godwit: Poems of Canada (FootHills), which received the Eiseman Award for Poetry. She is Assistant editor and poetry book reviewer for The Centrifugal Eye, a member of the board of directors of Just Poets (Rochester, NY), and a member of the New Mexico State Poetry Society, the Florida State Poetry Society and TallGrass Writers Guild. Visit her blog, Vagabond Poet, at http://karlalinn.blogspot.com Kevin Miller lives in Tacoma, Washington. Pleasure Boat Studio published his third collection Home & Away: the Old Town Poems in 2009. Miller taught 39 years in the public schools of Washington State and in June made it an even 40 as a volunteer at a small school in Tacoma. An Alaskan of over three decades, Cynthia Monroe holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of British Columbia. Her poems have appeared in the Canadian publication, Tongue Tide, and in the Blue Mesa Review, and have won regional and national competitions. She divides her time between Alaska and New England. When not at computer or kitchen counter, she can be found chasing dogs and kids, preferably outdoors. Rebecca D. Morse is a retired educator with New England roots. She has lived and worked in Fairbanks, Alaska for over twenty-five years. Keith Moul’s poems and photos are published widely. Finishing Line Press released a chapbook called The Future as a Picnic Lunch in 2015. Aldrich Press will publish Naked Among Possibilities in 2016; Finishing Line Press has accepted Investment in Idolatry for 2016 release. He blogs at: http://poemsphotosmoul.blogspot.com/ Jana Ariane Nelson called Anchorage her home from 1948 through the mid-1980’s. Although she resides in Eugene, Oregon, her children and grandchildren still live in the Anchorage area. Jana is retired and now stays busy with website craftsmanship and administration, writing, adult dance classes, pets, gardening, crafts, family history, and genealogy. Because of her interest in family history, and wanting to share stories of everyday Alaskans, Jana created GrowingUpAnchorage.com, dedicated to preserving authentic stories of those who lived in Anchorage during those years. Since then thirty-five other writers have joined her in this endeavor, and over 230 stories have been posted. Sheila Nickerson, a former Alaska Poet Laureate, lives in Bellingham, Washington. Her most recent nonfiction title is Harnessed to the Pole: Sledge Dogs in Service to American Explorers of the Arctic, 1853-1909 (University of Alaska Press, 2014). Timothy Pilgrim, a Pacific Northwest poet, has over 300 published poems in dozens of journals such as Seattle Review, Cirque, and San Pedro River Review. He is the author of Mapping Water (Flying Trout Press) and co-author of Bellingham Poems. His work can be found at timothypilgrim.org Peter Porco, a native New Yorker, has lived in Alaska since 1981. He spent years as a reporter & editor for the Anchorage Daily News and is currently revising a play about crime novelist Dashiell Hammett as editor of a GI newspaper in the Aleutians in WW2. Another historical play, “The Lady Is a Trucker,” about an Alaska woman who drove for the Army in WW2, was performed in July 2015 in Anchorage. Vivian Faith Prescott is a fifth generation Alaskan, born and raised in Wrangell, Alaska. She currently lives in Wrangell at her family’s fishcamp. She has an MFA from the University of Alaska and a Ph.D. in Cross Cultural Studies from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Vivian is a recipient of a Rasmuson Fellowship, the Jason Wenger Award for Literary Excellence, and was a finalist for the Joy Harjo Poetry Award and the Colorado Prize for Poetry. Her poetry has previously appeared in the Hawaii Pacific Re-