Dermot Cole:

 
Dermot Cole is a long-time newspaper columnist for the Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner and an author of books about Alaska, including Amazing Pipeline Stories, How Building the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Transformed Life in America’s Last Frontier, Frank Barr, Bush Pilot in Alaska and The Yukon and Hard Driving. He grew up in Pennsylvania and lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Montana before moving to Alaska at the start of the pipeline boom. He studied journalism at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and was named a Michigan Journalism Fellow in l986-87 at the University of Michigan. He also worked for the Associated Press in Seattle. He currently lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Kirkpatrick Hill:

Kirkpatrick Hill was an elementary school teacher for more than thirty years, most of that time in the Alaskan "bush." Hill is the mother of six children and the grandmother of eight. Her three earlier books, Toughboy and Sister, Winter Camp, and The Year of Miss Agnes, have all been immensely popular. Her fourth book with McElderry Books, Dancing at the Odinochka, was a Junior Library Guild Selection. Hill's visits to a family member in jail inspired her to write Do Not Pass Go.  She currently lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Laurel Downing Hill:

Born in Fairbanks in l95l, third-generation Alaskan Laurel Downing Bill spent most of her adult life in rural Fairbanks, earning a degree in journalism from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2003. Her books, Aunt Phil’s Trunk, Volumes I and II, are comprised of articles written by her late historian aunt, Phyllis Downing Carlson, as well as stories from her own research into Alaska’s past. She currently lives in Anchorage, Alaska.

Carolyn Kremers:

Before her first visit to Alaska in l973, Colorado native Carolyn Kremers had wanted to live in the Alaskan bush.
In 1986 she accepted an invitation to teach music and english at a school in a remote Yup'ik Eskimo village on Nelson Island. Since then, she has made Alaska her home. She wrote her book, Place of the Pretend People, based on her experiences there.

Kremers now lives outside of Fairbanks and teaches at the University of Alaska and in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Her non-fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous publications and she has received a special citation from the PEN/Jerard Fund Award for emerging women writers of nonfiction.

Karen J. Laubenstein:

Karen has published Project Archeology, Intrigue of The Past, a juvenile detective series and Princeton Review, Archeology Smart Junior (1997.) She is currently working on a new series, The Moose Murders, an Alaska ungulate series. She is a board member of Alaska Sisters in Crime and currently lives in Anchorage.


Publisher:

Barbara Farris has been writing since she was five years old and putting on bad plays in her backyard.  She has an MFA in art and was an assistant professor at Illinois Central College and an instructor at Augusta University of Georgia. She is currently working on her fourth novel and writes a comic strip based on her life in Alaska.
    
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                                                                                             Fairbanks, Alaska 99708