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CONTRIBUTORS Jean Anderson is the author of In Extremis & Other Alaskan Stories and co-editor of the regional anthology Inroads. The chapters of “Bird’s Milk” published here are part of a short novel set in Siberia a few weeks before the Russian coup. Anderson has lived in Fairbanks since 1966 and has recent work appearing in Connotations, Northern Review, and Cirque. Jennifer Andrulli is inspired by the patterns, textures and light of the natural environment, Mother Earth. Drawn to the quiet lush places and to wild craft plant medicine and edibles she walks in two worlds, capturing the essence of life with her lens and with her harvest. Searching for patterns requires intention; textures are always a surprising blessing and light is life, in time: she is always shown the perfection of nature. Her passion for traditional healing and plant knowledge has taken her around the world to sit with elders; to listen and learn. Her journey continues. Alexandra Ellen Appel: My philosophy: Simplicity. Nuance the layers. That, and dogs. Michael Aspros lives in Portland, OR, on the edge of Forest Park. His poetry has appeared in Audubon’s The Warbler, Columbia Land Trust’s Quarterly newsletter, Trust Talk, and is forthcoming in The Grove Review and Fault Lines Poetry. Christianne Balk’s books include Bindweed (Macmillan, Walt Whitman Award), and Desiring Flight (Purdue University Press). She loves broken music, the haunting Anglo-Saxon rhythms of everyday street talk, and riding her mother-in-law’s thirty-year-old bike in triathlons. After majoring in biology at Grinnell College, she studied English at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Measure, Prairie Schooner, Switched-on Gutenberg, and other journals and anthologies. From 1984 to 1987 Christianne lived in Fairbanks; since 1990 she has lived in Seattle with her husband and daughter. John Barton has published nine books of poetry and five chapbooks, including Great Men (Quarry, 1990), Designs from the Interior (Anansi 1994), Sweet Ellipsis (ECW, 1998), Hypothesis (Anansi, 2001), Asymmetries (Frog Hollow, 2004), and Hymn (Brick, 2009). He also co-edited Seminal: The Anthology of Canadian Gay Male Poets (Arsenal Pulp, 2007). A selected poems, For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin, and a chapbook, Balletomane: The Program Notes of Lincoln Kirstein, are forthcoming respectively from Nightwood Editions and JackPine Press in 2012. He lives in Victoria, B.C., where he is the editor of The Malahat Review. In 1968, Gretchen Brinck was the world’s greenest social worker with the world’s hardest job: child welfare in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. She is completing a group of non-fiction stories about that experience. “The Fox Boy” recounts her first -- and most tragic -- case. Her unrelated book, The Boy Next Door, true crime, came out in 1999 and remains in print. Now retired, she is free to pursue her first love: writing. Polly Buckingham’s work appears in The Literary Review, The New Orleans Review, The North American Review, The Tampa Review (Pushcart nomination), Exquisite Corpse, Kalliope, Hubbub, Raven Chronicles and forthcoming in Whitefish Review and The Chattahoochee Review. She is the founding editor of StringTown Press, and teaches writing and literature at Eastern Washington University. Her collection of stories The Stolen Child and Other Stories was a 2011 finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award and a 2012 Bakeless Prize finalist. Janet Buttenwieser’s nonfiction work has appeared or is forthcoming in
89 the Bellevue Literary Review, Los Angeles Review, Soundings Review, and won honorable mention in The Atlantic 2010 Student Writing contest and the 2011 Artsmith Literary Award. She is the assistant nonfiction editor for Soundings Review, and an MFA candidate at the Whidbey Writers’ Workshop in Washington State. Vic Cavalli’s poetry, short fiction, photography, and visual art have been published in various literary journals in Canada, the United States, England, North Africa, and Australia. He is currently living in British Columbia, Canada. Lucian Childs currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska, where he makes his living as a graphic designer. He blogs for the 49 Alaska Writers Center and is a coordinator of their reading series. This January, he received an Honorable Mention for Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Award. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Compass Rose, Quiddity, and Rougarou. Kimberly Davis is an Alaska girl born and raised on a homestead in the Salcha Valley. She enjoys time spent with her children and grandchildren with whom she is always seeing life through fresh eyes. Kimberly is inspired in everyday life as a residential gardener who loves the outdoors, interior design, travel & photography and relaxing at the end of the day with friends and a delicious glass of wine. Monica Devine is the author of four children’s books, among them Iditarod: The Greatest Win Ever, which was a nominee for the Golden Kite Award. Her adult nonfiction piece, On The Edge of Ice, won First Place in Creative Nonfiction with the New Letters Magazine of Writing and Art. Monica currently writes memoir, poetry and fiction from her home in Eagle River, Alaska. Maureen Donatelli is a poet and photographer living in the beautiful Fraser Valley of Southwest British Columbia. She received her BA in English from The University of the Fraser Valley and is currently working on her first chapbook Anthos. Brenda Doucette is an oil painter in Santa Fe who was irresistibly drawn to photograph the iconic face of the world renown poet Mike Burwell. Her art can be seen at www. bfdoucette.com Melina Draper’s book of poems is forthcoming from Boreal Books, an imprint of Red Hen Press. She holds an MFA in writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and lives in Fairbanks with her family. Her collaborative poetry book Lugar de Origen/Place of Origin written with her mother, Argentine poet Elena Lafert, was the Winner of the 2008 International Latino Book Award for Best Bilingual Poetry Book. Susi Gregg FowIer lives and writes in Juneau, where she grew up and where four generations of her family still live. Her publication credits include Windfall, The Binnacle, Christian Science Monitor, Skirt!, Tidal Echoes, and eight children’s books, including the Christopher Award winning I’ll See You When The Moon Is Full (Greenwillow). Her ninth book, Arctic Aesop’s Fables: Twelve Retold Tales (Sasquatch/Paws IV) is scheduled for spring 2013 publication. Andrea Garland works as a public defender in Salt Lake City, Utah. Born in Anchorage, Alaska, she has a degree in Economics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has also lived in Juneau, Fairbanks, Nuiqsut, and in Washington State. She is a mentor for the Salt Lake Community Writing Center writing group Palinca. Alisa Gordaneer is from Victoria, BC, where she writes poetry and both creative and technical nonfiction. She teaches writing of all sorts, and contributes a monthly column about the arts to Victoria’s Boulevard