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2026, March · AWP, Baltimore, MD.
2026, March 12 · Launch of Maya Jewell Zeller’s Porphyry Press book, Raised by Ferns. Spokane, Washington.
2026, April · GetLit! Festival, Spokane, WA.
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2025, November 19 · Porphyry Press launch of Erica Watson’s Ghosts of Distant Trees. Solstice Books, Fairbanks, Alaska.
2025, September 28-30 · PNBA Fall Trade Show book fair, Porphyry Press. Spokane, Washington.
2025, May 21 · Edible Alaska summer issue launch party, Anchorage Brewing Company. Anchorage, Alaska.
2025, May 4-8 · Publishers’ Seminar, Friesens. Altona, Manitoba, Canada.
2025, April 5 · Featured author, Beyond the Stacks annual fundraiser for Anchorage Public Library. Anchorage, Alaska.
2024, April 16 · Profiled in Copper River Record. Read the story here.
2023, March 9 · Terrain.org · Signing at #AWP23. Seattle, Washington.
2022, September 21 · 6 PM · Alaska World Arts Festival: Into Light: A Poetry and Prose Reading. Live at Homer Public Library and on KBBI Radio. Marco Wilkinson, Jeremy Pataky, Marybeth Holleman. Homer, Alaska.
2022, September 2-3 · In a Time of Change: Boreal Forest Stories. A collaborative arts-humanities-science program sponsored by Bonanza Creek Long-Term Ecological Research Program and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Reading, Centennial Center Theater. Part of Arctic Fest. Fairbanks, Alaska.
2022, April 23 · Featured author, Beyond the Stacks annual fundraiser for Anchorage Public Library. Anchorage, Alaska.
2020, September 15 · Sweetwater anthology reading. Planet Earth Poetry reading with ed. Yvonne Blomer and contributors. Vancouver, B.C.
2020, August 25 · Cirque Press group reading. Tim Pilgrim, Jerry McDonnell, Ron McFarland, Judith Skillman, Jeff Fair, Jeremy Pataky, Monica Devine, Doug Pope, Dave Rowan. Zoom.
2020, June 10 · Virtual book launch for Mary Odden’s Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North · Red Hen Press. Writers across Alaska, from cities to rural, came together virtually to celebrate and discuss Mostly Water with the author, Mary Odden, and editor of Boreal Books, Peggy Shumaker. View the recording here, hosted by Boreal Books and Homer Bookstore.
2020, March 19 · I was a guest on The Write Question, a weekly radio show and podcast that features authors from the western United States. Missoula, Montana.
2020, February · poem in Chatter Marks Issue #01, new journal dedicated to creative and critical thinking about the Circumpolar North, Anchorage Museum. Anchorage, Alaska.
2020, January · Writing residency in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory at Jenni House Artist Residency with artist collaborator Kristin Link. Public talk: Jan. 15.
2019, November 1 · Unbound: Seed Lab Write-In with Ray Ball, Chaun Ballard, Tara Ballard, Jeremy Pataky, Jen Ruckle, & MoHagani Magnetek. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska.
2019, October 24+25 · Bagley Wright Lecture Series | Cedar Sigo: Pataky/49 Writers, partnering with Anchorage Museum, presents Suquamish poet Cedar Sigo’s 1) penultimate Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry lecture and 2) ROYALS reading at the Anchorage Community House in the Turnagain Arts Building, re-venued from Olena Kalytiak Davis’s home due to an emergent matter, with interdisciplinary artist S. Hollis Mickey, poet Cedar Sigo, and songwriter Nick Carpenter (of Medium Build). Anchorage, Alaska.
2019, July 2 · Interview: Rob McLellan’s blog: 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Jeremy Pataky, by Rob McClellan
2019, June 4 · CBC North radio interview with Dave White: "Alaska poet Jeremy Pataky journeys through the Yukon, and wonders why two places that have so much in common don't share more." 14:30 min. Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada.
2019, June 3 · Upstreams reading · Poetry and Prose with Jeremy Pataky & Corinna Cook at Baked Cafe. Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada.
2019, May 29-June 1 · North Words Writers Symposium. Participant. Skagway and Dyea, Alaska.
2019, April 21 · Such Wild Live: A Tribute to Mary Oliver group reading · The Writer's Block Bookstore & Cafe. Featured poets MaryBeth Holleman (emcee), Monica Devine, Christy Everett, Jeremy Pataky, & Karen Tschannen, plus open mic. Anchorage, Alaska.
2019, April 17 · Voices Carry, a poetry reading in celebration of National Poetry Month presented by Seward Writers Collective with support from the Seward Library Foundation and the Alaska Awesome Foundation Alaska chapter at Seward Community Library. Seward, Alaska.
2019, April 6 · Beyond the Stacks fundraiser for Anchorage Library. One of several guest authors featured at a ticketed dinner and auction benefiting Anchorage libraries. Anchorage, Alaska.
2019, March 27-30 · AWP Conference, #AWP19 · Book signing at U Alaska Press booth. Panel (moderator): North of Ordinary: Residencies, Retreats, & Conferences in a Globalizing Alaska
Writers in Alaska have long surpassed colonial frontier tropes, garnering Guggenheims and Whiting awards, writing bestsellers, and receiving Pulitzer and National Book Award nominations. Commensurately, more and more conferences, retreats, and residencies across Alaska serve writers from in state and beyond. Join the leaders of Alaskan writers conferences, retreats, residency programs, and a literary center as they share how they've crafted a writing community that spans Alaska. Portland, Oregon.
2018, December 18 · Unbound: Poetry on Demand #anchoragemuseumquakepoems · 10 poets including Joanna Lilley, Jeremy Pataky, Adam Mackie, Itzel Zagal, Joan Kane, Mindi Vogel, Chaun Ballard, Tara Ballard, Gabriela Halas, and X̱'unei Lance Twitchell crafted poems on the spot. Anchorage, Alaska.
2018, October 27 · Roughly for the North: A Book Launch and Reading featuring five indigenous women writers including three Alaska Native poets. The event launched Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen’s debut poetry collection, "Roughly for the North" (University of Alaska Press 2018) and promoted forthcoming debut poetry collections by Abigail Chabitnoy ("How to Dress a Fish," Wesleyan University Press 2019) and Casandra Lopez (Brother Bullet, University of Arizona Press 2019), along with Institute of American Indian Arts MFA faculty Kristiana Kahakauwila's "This is Paradise" (Penguin Random House 2013) and novel-in-progress, and the November release of Joan Naviyuk Kane’s sixth collection, Sublingual (Finishing Line Press, November 2018). Hugo House, presented by Pataky of 49 Writers. Seattle, Washington.
2018, April 7 · Inland Poetry Prowl featured reader. Ellensburg, Washington.
2018, March 9 · Writer’s Block Bookstore and Cafe grand opening author reading. Anchorage, Alaska.
2018, March 5 · Judge: Poetry Out Loud Alaska State Finals competition. Juneau, Alaska.
2018, January 20 · Fairbanks Arts’ Literary Reading Series kicks off featuring Alaskan contributors to The Northern Review, a peer reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal exploring human experience in the Circumpolar North, published at Yukon College in Whitehorse. Featured readers include: Kyle Mellen, Jason Namey, Dixon Jones, Linda Schandelmeier, Leslie McCartney, Carolyn Kremers, Jeremy Pataky, and Susan Sugai. Fairbanks, Alaska.
2017, October 19 · Book launch for Refugium: Poems for the Pacific the Public Library Strathcona Branch. Readers include contributors Ann Hopkinson, Jo Lilley, Jeremy Pataky, Heidi Greco, Rob Taylor, Lee Beavington, Anne Simpson, Fiona Tinwei Lam, Miranda Pearson, Luther Allen, Lorin Medley, Terri Brandmueller, Nancy Pagh, Betsy Warland, and Kate Braid. Vancouver, B.C.
2017, September 29 · Art & Life in the Aftermath · This Crosscurrents event, conceived of and organized by Pataky of 49 Writers, featured Vera Starbard, Joan Naviyuk Kane, and Don Rearden. It kicked off the National Endowment for the Arts Big Read in Juneau in partnership with Juneau Public Libraries, Alaska State Library and Museum, Friends of JPL, and Friends of Alaska State Library and Museum. The Big Read focused on the book Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. The event was meant to air on 360 North, but one of the two techs erred. Which happens.
2017, September · Louise Erdrich in Alaska · Honored to host Louise Erdrich in Alaska for a series of public 49 Writers events followed by the 8th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, led by Erlich, at Tutka Bay Lodge.
2017, April 27 · Interview: Anchorage Daily News · "Emerging Alaska poets remind us of our roots" by Heather Lende
2017, March 6 · Reading with poet Julie LeMay at Juneau Arts & Humanities. Juneau, AK.
2018, March 5 · Judge: Poetry Out Loud Alaska State Finals competition. Juneau, Alaska.
2017, April 7 · Interview with KUAC's Lori Neufeld for having judged Fairbanks Arts Association’s 23rd Annual Statewide Poetry Contest along with the first place-winners in each age group: elementary school winner Darcy Misel; high school winner Sasha Gorda; and adult winner Kersten Christiansen.
2017, January 15 · Microessay published in We Alaskans, Alaska Dispatch News.
2016, December 8 · Reviewed Up Here: The North at the Center of the World, ed. Julie Decker & Kirsten J. Anderson (University of Washington Press, 2016) for Anchorage Press.
2016, November 16 · Reading: Poetry Parley reading series featured reader. W.S. Merwin marquee. Becky’s Studio, Anchorage, Alaska.
2016, October 4-7 · Alliance of Artists Communities Annual Conference. Portland, Oregon.
2016, September · Debra Magpie Erling in Alaska · Honored to host Debra in Alaska for public 49 Writers events followed by the 7th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, led by Erling, at Tutka Bay Lodge.
2016, August 25 · Cover story interview with Pulitzer-prize winning composer and writer John Luther Adams for Anchorage Press.
2016, June 10-14 · Kachemak Bay Writers Conference. Participant. Sessions with Forrest Gander, Dan Beachy-Quick, Nancy Lord, and many others. Homer, Alaska on, and the business of writing.
2016, April 4-6 · Alliance of Artists Communities Emerging Program Institute. Two-day bootcamp combines best practices from the arts-and-cultural sector with specific, hands-on information about artists' residencies. Attended as a representative of the Rasmuson Foundation Artist Residency Program.
2016, March 19 · Reading & Performance with Molly McDermott. Cellist, songwriter, and vocalist Molly McDermott and I appeared together. Live poetry and music, including songs she adapted from Overwinter poems. Bunnell Street Arts Center. Homer, Alaska.
2016, February 18 · Essay published on GlacierHub. “Life by Ice: An Alaskan Poet's Account" available here.
2016, January 8 · Reading: The Living Room Reading Series. Eagle River, Alaska.
2015, December · Residency: PLAYA Fellowship Residency Program. Two weeks. Summer Lake, Oregon.
2015, October · Residency: Willowtail Springs artist residency at Willowtail Springs Nature Preserve and Education Center. Mancos, Colorado.
2015, October 13-16 · Alliance of Artists Communities Annual Conference · panel moderator: Bring It Home: Pivoting Back To Local Contexts | The arts and culture sector has unique power to engage challenging issues and foster a deeper understanding of a place. But how can organizations harness this power—boldly responding to their contexts, empowering artists and cultural producers to take a seat at the table, and addressing pressing issues of a neighborhood, region, and beyond? From Cleveland, to Alaska, to Santa Fe, and back to Providence—arts leaders and funders reflect on a moment when they pivoted to the local by taking deeper looks at their neighborhoods, engaging community dynamics, and tackling social and environmental challenges. Join an open conversation on ways we engage our places, and what it means for our own missions, programming, and future sustainability. Providence, Rhode Island
Panelists:
SueEllen Kroll | Director of Grants + Strategic Partnerships, Rhode Island Council for the Humanities
Liz Maugans | Co-Founder + Executive Director, Zygote Fine Art Press
Jeremy Pataky | Independent Consultant, Overstory Consulting (moderator)
Sanjit Sethi | Former Executive Director, Santa Fe Art Institute
2015, October 2-3 · Reading and radio interview · Radio interview: The Downtowner broadcast live on KSUA 91.5 FM | Reading: Bear Gallery, Fairbanks Arts Association to kick off Alaska Book Week. Live poetry from Overwinter and live music by Molly McDermott, a cellist, vocalist, and songwriter who has toured with the Kirtan Choir and June Madrona. She's a member of the Fairbanks-based band Harm, which blends psych-folk and hip-hop with classical themes. Original poetry and music, including songs she adapted from Overwinter poems. Fairbanks, Alaska.
2015, September 20 · Anchorage Museum · History Bites: Historically Inspired Cuisine. Reading during a three-course dining experience in Muse that featured a historically inspired menu, locally sourced ingredients, and an exploration of food culture, gardening, and subsistence in Cook Inlet. Anchorage, Alaska.
2015, September 14 · U Alaska Anchorage Campus Bookstore · Reading with John Morgan, hosted by Rachel Epstein.
2015, September 11-18 · Gary Geddes & Ann Eriksson in Alaska · Honored to host Gary and Ann in Alaska for public 49 Writers events followed by the 6th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat at Tutka Bay Lodge.
2015, September 8 · Crosscurrents: The Engaged Muse: Politics, Poetry, and Narrative. Moderator: “What do these strange bedfellows have in common?” asked Geddes and Eriksson. “Isn’t politics, like sex, verboten at the dinner table or in polite society?” Geddes and Eriksson don’t hesitate to write about social and political issues, without letting content overwhelm their art and without becoming ideologues or partisans. They are both known for their challenging writing, Eriksson taking on polluters and the boom-and-bust psychology that fouls oceans and forests, Geddes going after the killers at Kent State University, racist and colonial practices in Canada and abroad, and the rise of militarism disguised as peace-keeping. The 49 Writers Crosscurrents series presents onstage conversations that unite authors and audiences through lively, moderated discussions on questions pertaining to art, culture, and science as illuminated by writers and their work. 49 Writers is a statewide literary nonprofit that supports the artistic development of writers throughout Alaska, fosters a writing community, and builds an audience for literature. Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska.
2015, September 11 · Overwinter reviewed in Southern Humanities Review by Benjamin Schell.
2015, August 25 · Reading and performance at Wrangell Mountains Center. Equal parts poetry from Overwinter and music by Molly McDermott, a cellist, vocalist, and songwriter who has toured with the Kirtan Choir and June Madrona. She's a member of the Fairbanks-based band Harm, which blends psych-folk and hip-hop with classical themes. McCarthy, Alaska.
2015, June 21 · Overwinter reviewed in Cirque: A Literary Journal for the North Pacific Rim Vol. 6, No. 2 by Susanna J. Mishler: Rock, Paper, and the Second Person.
2015, July 1 · Overwinter reviewed in NewPages by Dana Johnson.
2015, June 12-16 · Faculty: Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference, Kachemak Bay Campus · Kenai Peninsula College/UAA. Homer, Alaska.
2015, May 14 · Reading: It's About Time Writers' Reading Series · Ballard Branch Seattle Public Library. Seattle, Washington.
2015, May 7 · Reading: Mineral School Celebration & Fundraiser · Hugo House. Seattle, Washington.
2015, May · Reading + signing at Village Books. Bellingham, Washington.
2015, April 30-May 3 · Participant and reader, Cascadia Poetry Festival. Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.
2015, April 20-26 · Faculty, GetLit! Literary Festival. Spokane, Washington. Beacon Hill Reading Series with Tod Marshall, Sarah Hulse, and Jeremy Pataky at Spokane Community College, Hagan Foundation Center for the Humanities. GetLit! Poetry Salon with Rick Barot, Yvonne Higgins Leach, Tod Marshall, Jeremy Pataky, Ellen Welcker, and Jonathan Potter at The Bartlett. Poetry workshop.
2015, April 21 · Reading + signing at Shakespeare & Company. Missoula, Montana.
2015, April 17 · Newspaper profile in the Missoulian. Missoula, Montana.
2015, April 8-11 · AWP Conference, #AWP25. Offsite reading with Linda Martin, Jeremy Pataky, Adam Tavel, Sherry Simpson, Eva Saulitis, David Stevenson, and Deb Vanasse. | Minneapolis Community & Technical College. 50th Anniversary University of Montana MFA Reading & CutBank Launch Party. Book signing at University of Alaska Press table. Minneapolis, Minnesota.
2015, April 7 · Reading + signing at University Book Store. Seattle, Washington.
2015, April 6 · KTUU Channel 2 news television feature. Anchorage, Alaska
2015, March 18-24 · Southeast Alaska book tour + workshop
JUNEAU, ALASKA - March 19 - KINY's Capital Chat talk program with Sharon Gaiptman | listen- KTOO's Juneau Afternoon, 104.3 FM | Interview about Overwinter listen | Reading + signing with Emily Wall | Heritage Coffee Roasting Co.
HAINES, ALASKA - March 20 - Reading in the Round and signing, Haines Borough Public Library | more
SKAGWAY, ALASKA - March 22 - Craft talk, reading, and signing at Skagway Public Library
JUNEAU, ALASKA - March 24 - Live Radio Interview @ KTOO Studio | Interview about 49 Writers | Taught a 49 Writers class at Juneau Arts and Humanities Center. "A Reader's Approach to Poetry"
This tour made possible by generous support from Taku Graphics: Alaska Art + Books
2015, March 18 · Newspaper interview. Capital City Weekly. Juneau, Alaska.
2015, March 13 · Book launch, Hugi-Lewis Studio. Live poetry from Overwinter, music by Molly McDermott and Eskimo Bob, and book signing. Anchorage, Alaska.
2015, March 12 · Newspaper feature in Anchorage Press. Anchorage, Alaska.
2015, February 16 · Guest speaker in Jonathan Bower's writing class, University of Alaska Anchorage
2015, February 15 · Reading: Cirque 6.1 launch at Fireside Books with Sandra Kleven, Cynthia Lee Sims, David Cheezem, Eowyn Ivey, Julie LeMay, Jeremy Pataky, Elizabeth L. Thompson, Monica Devine, Steven Rubinstein, Kathleen Witkowska Tarr, and Egan Millard. Live music. Palmer, Alaska.
2015, February 7 · Reading: Cabin Fever Pop-up Film Series: Kincaid Bunker. The final, ticketed event of three off-site film screenings curated by Michael Walsh and associated with the Anchorage Museum’s Cabin Fever exhibition. Participating artists: Bruce Conner, Stan Brakhage, Phil Soloman, Martha Colburn, Bruce Farnsworth, Jeremy Pataky, Eva Saulitis, and more. Anchorage, Alaska.
2015, January 31 · Reading: Cabin Fever Pop-up Film Series: Homer Edition. Second of three off-site film screenings associated with the Anchorage Museum’s Cabin Fever exhibition. Poetry by Erin Hollowell, Bruce Farnsworth, Jeremy Pataky, Eva Saulitis, and Miranda Weiss; films by George Kuchar, Claude, Peter Rose, Renato Umali, Michael Walsh, and Martha Colburn, and Performance by Easy D. Curated by Michael Walsh. Bunnell Street Arts Center, Homer, Alaska.
2015, January · Grant Award: Career Opportunity Grant from Alaska State Council on the Arts.
2014, October 20-23 · Alliance of Artists Communities conference participant, Charleston, South Carolina.
2014, September 5-7 · Carolyn Forché in Alaska · Honored to host Carolyn Forché in Alaska for a series of public 49 Writers events followed by the 5th annual Tutka Bay Writers Retreat, led by Carolyn Forché at Tutka Bay Lodge. Also led a breakout poetry session for participants.
2014, September 5 · Residency presentation: Anchorage Museum program ~ Arctic Desert: Kobuk Valley National Park. This First Friday program in the Museum's Chugach Gallery followed our August trip to the Northwest Arctic region of Alaska and presented our findings to the public. Work made during the trip from myself and painter Betany Porter were displayed, and Travis Gilmour's short film about the trip premiered.
2014, August 3-9 · Artist Residency: Polar Lab · Arctic Desert: Kobuk Valley National Park. I traveled to Kotzebue, Kiana, and the Great Kobuk Sand Dunes with a visual artist, curator, educator and filmmaker. We went from an exhibit about the dunes in the Anchorage Museum to the dunes themselves and back, exploring the place through our respective lenses and a collective one. · Learn more and watch a video. Kotzebue, Kiana, & Great Kobuk Sand Dunes in Kobuk Valley National Park, Alaska.
2014, February 7-9 · Reading + Paper: Reading and Exhibiting Nature International Conference, under the auspices of the Anchorage Museum. This three-day conference examined how nature is understood in contemporary cultural and artistic production. The conference concluded with my poetry reading and a performance by Inupiaq artist Allison Akootchook Warden. I also presented the work of two Inupiaq poets, Joan Naviyuk Kane and Cathy Tagnak Rexford. Westminster, London, England.
2012, August · Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark, Wrangell Mountains Center. Reading with Dan Beachy-Quick, weeklong guest poetry instructor.
2011, July 29 · Denali Education Center, Permanent Vacation contributors reading with Christine Byl and Tom Walker. Denali Park, Alaska.
2011, August · Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark, Wrangell Mountains Center. Reading with Elizabeth Bradfield, weeklong guest poetry instructor.
2011, April 4 · State of the Hood: 50 Years of Alaska Poetry with Richard Dauenhauer, Sheila Nickerson, & Diane Benson. Alaska Poetry League. Wild Berry Theater, Anchorage.
2011, February 16 · Guest reader at Don Rearden’s book launch for The Raven’s Gift. Snow Goose Theater, Anchorage, Alaska.
2009, January 31 · Reading with Joan Naviyuk Kane and Don Rearden, for FREEZE: A Month-long Celebration of Alaska & Life in the North. Anchorage Museum.
2008, April 14 · Reading, Missoula Public Library Poetry Month Series. Missoula, Montana.
2008, March 16 · New Lakes Poetry Radio with Brandon Shimoda. KGBA 89.9 FM. Missoula, Montana.
2008, March 15 · New Lakes Reading & Performance Series reading with Christine Hume. The Wilma, Missoula, Montana.
2008, January 4 · Winter Interlude Exhibition reading, Forward Montana, Missoula, Montana.
2008, April 26 · Homesteading, a reading with Grace Egbert. The Stensrud Building, Missoula, Montana.
2005, December 8 · Museum of Natural Futures, a group performance and reading. The Crystal Theater, Missoula, Montana.
2005, October 22 · Reading and craft talk at Crisis Carnival: New Horizons in Environmental Rhetoric. San Diego State U. San Diego, California.
2001, May 1 · Jeopardy Magazine Author Gala. Western Washington U, Bellingham, Washington.
Honors and Awards
2015 Career Opportunity Grant, Alaska State Council the Arts
2013 Tupelo Press 1st/2nd Book Award Finalist
2012 Alaska Humanities Forum General Grant
2011 1st Place Winner: Fairbanks Arts Association Statewide Poetry Contest
2010 1st Place Winner: UAA /Anchorage Daily News Creative Writing Contest, Poetry
2007 Poetry Fellowship, University of Montana, 2006-2007
2005 Teaching Fellowship, University of Montana, 2005-2006
2006 Scholarship, Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference, Homer Council on the Arts
2006 Bertha Morton Scholarship, University of Montana
2006 Grant to attend AWP Conference, University of Montana
2006 Grant to attend Napa Valley Writers Conference, University of Montana
2005 1st Place, General Public, UAA/Anchorage Daily News Creative Writing Contest, Poetry
2005 1st Place, General Public, UAA/Anchorage Daily News Creative Writing Contest, Fiction
2005 AWP Intro Award Sole Nominee, University of Montana
2005 Grant to present at a San Diego State University conference, University of Montana
2004 Honorable Mention, General Public, UAA/Anchorage Daily News Creative, Writing Contest, Poetry
2004 Honorable Mention, Anchorage Press Haiku Contest
2003 Grand Prize Winner, Anchorage Press Short Shorts Contest
2000 AWP Intro Award Nominee, Western Washington University
Teaching Experience
2017 Guest lecturer, Evergreen State College, Wrangell Mountains Center. McCarthy, AK
2015 Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, two workshops. KPC. Homer, AK
2015 GetLit! Festival, one workshop. Eastern Washington University. Spokane, WA
2015 49 Writers, poetry reading class at Juneau Arts and Humanities Center, Juneau, AK
2015 Guest Instructor, UAA undergrad creative writing class. Anchorage, AK
2014 49 Writers, Tutka Bay Writers Retreat breakout session leader, Tutka Bay Lodge, AK
2013 University of Alaska Anchorage Adjunct Instructor, Introductory Poetry Workshop
2013 49 Writers, Poetry Mentor
2012 Wrangell Mountains Poetry Workshop Director, McCarthy, AK
2011 49 Writers, Tutka Bay Writers Retreat breakout session leader, Tutka Bay Lodge, AK
2011 Wrangell Mountains Poetry Workshop Director, McCarthy, AK
2010 Alaska Wildlands Studies Program guest instructor, UC Monterey Bay, Wrangell Mountains Center. McCarthy, AK
2010 BA Thesis Committee Member · Vanessa Willcox-Healey. Facilitating Research in a National Park: Wrangell-St. Elias Research Summit, Alaska Pacific University. McCarthy.
2008 Alaska Wildlands Studies Program guest lecturer, UC Monterey Bay, Wrangell Mountains Center. McCarthy, AK
2005-08 University of Montana, Composition Instructor, Missoula, MT
2007-08 The Writing Center, University of Montana, Tutor, Missoula, MT
2007-08 Missoula Writing Collaborative youth poetry instructor, Missoula, MT
2007 Instructor, Introduction to Poetry Writing Workshop, University of Montana
2004-05 Substitute Teacher, Anchorage School District, Anchorage, AK
Arts Consulting & Employment, selected
2016-20 · 49 Writers, Inc., Executive Director
2013-17 · Rasmuson Foundation Artist Residency Program Coordinator
2016 · Conference Director, Constellate: Alaska Arts Convergence, ASCA
2014 · Anchorage Museum's Polar Lab Creative Direction Team Member, Web Team Member, coordinator
2014 · Conference Director, Latitude: Alaska Arts Convergence, ASCA
2008-13 · Executive Director, Wrangell Mountains Center, McCarthy, Alaska
Conferences, Residencies, and Service
2020 Residency: Jenni House, collab. with Kristin Link, January, Whitehorse, Yukon
2019 AWP conference, presenter, Portland, OR
2018 INTER:CONNECT ~ 2018 Alaska Arts Convergence, ASCA. Fairbanks, AK
2018 NEA Creative Forces Summit, JBER, Anchorage, AK
2017 8th Annual Tutka Bay Writers Workshop with Louise Erdrich. Director. AK
2016 Alliance of Artists Communities Conference. Substitute presenter. Portland, OR
2016 Constellate: Alaska Arts Convergence, ASCA. Anchorage, AK
2015 Residency: Playa, Summer Lake, OR
2015 Residency: Willowtail Springs, Mancos, CO
2015 Alliance of Artist Communities Conference. Moderator. Providence, RI
2015 49 Writers Tutka Bay Writers Retreat w/ Gary Geddes & Ann Eriksson. Coordinator, Tutka Bay Lodge
2015 Kachemak Bay Writers' Conference. Faculty. Homer, AK
2015 Cascadia Poetry Festival. Nanaimo, BC, Canada
2015 GetLit! Festival, Eastern Washington University. Faculty. Spokane, WA
2014 Alliance of Artists Communities Conference. Charleston, SC
2014 49 Writers Tutka Bay Writers Retreat with Carolyn Forché. Tutka Bay Lodge, AK
2014 Arctic Desert Residency Expedition, Anchorage Museum. Kobuk Valley Ntn'l Park, AK
2014 Presenter, YOU ARE HERE: 61° N · 149° W: Alaska Arts Convergence. Anchorage, AK
2014 Associated Writers & Writing Programs Conference. Seattle, WA
2014 Presenter, Reading and Exhibiting Nature Conference. University of Westminster
2013 Juror, ArtPlace Old Town Artist in Residence, Bunnell Street Arts Center. Homer, AK
2013 Engaging Artists in Professional Residencies: How This Support Impacts Careers. Anchorage Museum
2013 Juror, Annual Operating Support Grants, ASCA
2012 Judge, Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest, State Finals. March 27. Juneau, AK
2012 Presenter: Creative Communities: Alaska Arts & Culture Conference. Anchorage, AK
2011 49 Writers Tutka Bay Writers Retreat with Dani Shapiro. Tutka Bay Lodge, AK
2010 Creative CrossPollination Workshop w Frank Soos, Margo Klass, Jonny Gray, & Maria Shell. MXY, AK
2010 Judge, Letters About Literature Contest, Alaska Center for the Book.
2009 Wrangell Mountains Writing Workshop with Scott Russell Sanders. McCarthy, AK
2009 Alaska Arts and Culture Conference, Alaska State Council on the Arts. Anchorage, AK
2008 Associated Writers & Writing Programs Conference. New York, NY
2006 Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference with Jeffrey Eugenides. Homer, AK
2006 Napa Valley Writers’ Conference with Brenda Hillman, et al. St. Helena, CA
2006 Associated Writers and Writing Programs Conference. Austin, TX
2003 Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric, UAA. Anchorage, AK
Community and Special Projects
2014-present McCarthy Area Council, Board Member. McCarthy, AK
2010-16 49 Writers, Inc. board member. Former VP and then Pres.
2009-13 Still North/Synergies Reading Series, Founder and Director. Anchorage, AK
2012 Kennicott Valley Bear Safety Pamphlet. McCarthy, AK
2006-07 CutBank Literary Magazine, Poetry Co-Editor. Missoula, MT
2005-06 Second Wind Reading Series, Co-curator. Missoula, MT
2000-01 Bellingham Review, staff reader. Bellingham, WA
Journalism
2017 Several columns in Anchorage Press
2014 61º North, Anchorage's Quarterly City & Lifestyle Magazine, feature
2014 Rasmuson Foundation Blog: Reflect. Share., guest post
2013 Arctic Sounder and Alaska Dispatch, feature
2013 49 Writers Blog, “The Rasmuson Foundation Artist Residency Program Includes a
Niche for Poets and Writers”,
2007 Snowshoe Magazine, miscellaneous articles
2005 Alaska Business Monthly, August issue, feature
2005 AK This Month, February issue, feature
2005 48 Degrees North, feature, April
2005 The Weather Notebook, NPR. Wrote and produced “Whittier, Alaska”. Aired April 11.
2004-05 Westside Pulse, numerous articles