Favorite Places in Alaska: Brooks Range, Tununak & Nelson Island, Gates of the Arctic NP, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Prince William Sound, Denali NP, birch forest in Fairbanks
Bio:
Carolyn Kremers writes literary nonfiction and poetry, and is a dedicated teacher. Born in Denver, Colorado, educated at Stanford and elsewhere, she moved to Alaska in 1986 to teach music and English in the village of Tununak. Later she completed an MFA in Creative Writing and taught writing and literature to undergraduate and graduate students in Alaska and at Eastern Washington University in Spokane. Currently she teaches part-time at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In 2008-09, she was a US Fulbright Scholar at Buryat State University in Ulan Ude, Russia. She
has served as Artist-in-Residence at Gates of the Arctic National Park &
Preserve (2004) and Denali National Park & Preserve (2011).
Books:
Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village (literary nonfiction), Alaska Northwest Books, 1996 (hardcover) and 2011 (softcover)
The Alaska Reader: Voices from the North (anthology co-edited with Anne Hanley), Fulcrum Publishing, 2005
Availability: Please contact me for readings, workshops, classes, lectures
Audience: I work with any audience.
Special Interests:
I have a particular interest in multimedia collaborations.
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Listing last updated: August, 2011