Now Available!
​My two 2026 books! Alaska Literary Field Guide from Mountaineers Books and Let Them Tell You: New and Selected Short Stories from the University of Alaska Press are both available from your favorite bookstores. 
​- read more -

Alaska Literary Field Guide 
​​is a vibrant and immersive celebration of Alaska’s wild beauty, blending science, storytelling, and stunning artwork. This unique anthology brings together a diverse range of the state’s most respected contemporary poets and writers alongside original, full-color artwork from 19 Alaskan visual artists.
- read more -

Let Them Tell You
gathers selected stories from Nancy Lord’s three previous story collections—each from a different decade—and adds ten new ones, including a novella. Some stories draw on personal experience, others from newspaper headlines, historical events, and myths. Some respond to earlier writers and their literary works. 
- read more -
​

Introductions...

Nancy Lord, a former Alaska State Writer Laureate (2008-2010), writes both fiction and literary nonfiction. Her nonfiction books include Fish Camp: Life on an Alaskan Shore, Beluga Days: Tracking a White Whale’s Truths, and Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-changed North.  Her fiction includes the new Let Them Tell You:  New and Selected Short Stories and pH: A Novel. She also edited the anthologies Made of Salmon and Alaska Literary Field Guide. She taught creative writing in the University of Alaska system for many years and currently teaches science writing in the Johns Hopkins University graduate science writing program. She lives in Homer, Alaska, and enjoys hiking, bird and wildlife watching, kayaking, and beachcombing. - read more -

---