Where:
Juneau Genre(s):
fiction, poetry, playwriting, children's literature Job(s):
teacher, university adjunct
Favorite Places in Alaska:
Southeast Alaska
Bio:Annie Boochever is a life-long Alaskan and an award-wining music, library and children's-theatre teacher. In addition to many musical plays for children, Annie is the author of My Bristol Bay Summer, a middle-grade novel scheduled for publication by Alaska Northwest Books in 2013. She is currently under contract to Sealaska Heritage Institute to create Our Ancestor's Shell: Reader's Theatre Adaptations of Southeast Alaska Native Legends, scheduled for publication in Fall, 2012. Her poem "Sestina to Paul Allen's Yacht" was recently selected to represent Alaska in the young adult literary journal, YARN's April issue.
Annie recently completed a Master's of Fine Arts in Creative Writing for
Children and Young Adults through the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. She lives in Juneau, where she teaches English at Thunder Mountain High School. She is also an adjunct instructor in the Masters of Teaching program at the University of Alaska Southeast.
Availability:
Please contact me for
readings, workshops, classes, lectures, and editorial services. Audience:
I work with
young writers (elementary and secondary school), university writers, and community writers.
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Listing last updated: August, 2011