You can find Nancy's books at the following locations... and your local bookstore!
pH: A Novel (NEW!!)
Alaska Northwest Books, Sept. 2017
This is Nancy's first novel, which she considers a science novel or even "cli-fi" (climate fiction.) It involves marine scientists working in Alaska on ocean warming and acidification. That's a pteropod or marine snail (also known as a sea butterfly) on the cover.
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Alaska Northwest Books, Sept. 2017
This is Nancy's first novel, which she considers a science novel or even "cli-fi" (climate fiction.) It involves marine scientists working in Alaska on ocean warming and acidification. That's a pteropod or marine snail (also known as a sea butterfly) on the cover.
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Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project
University of Alaska Press, 2016 Nancy edited this anthology, which includes a foreword by Bella Hammond; essays by twenty-one of Alaska's best essayists, including Ernestine Hayes, Seth Kantner, and Heather Lende; and thirty-plus more personal stories by Alaskans about their relationships with salmon. The cover photo and interior color photos are by Clark James Mishler. - read more - |
Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-Changed North
Counterpoint Press, 2011 This literary nonfiction book goes beyond documenting the climate change already so dramatic in Alaska and the Canadian Northwest to look at how northerners, especially indigenous peoples known for their resilience and adaptation, are responding. - read more - |
Beluga Days: Tracking the Endangered White Whale
Counterpoint Press, 2004 (hard cover) The Mountaineers Books, 2007 (paperback) For years, Nancy Lord lived with beluga whales at her fishcamp on Alaska's Cook Inlet. Then she observed fewer of them, and fewer still, and then summers passing when they were entirely absent. This literary nonfiction book is the result of a five-year quest to learn what was happening to the whales. - read more - 
Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast
Counterpoint Press, 1999 This creative nonfiction book, published on the one hundredth anniversary of the Harriman Alaska Expedition, provides an impressionistic account of that scientific and exploratory expedition in juxtaposition with Nancy Lord's own travels in coastal Alaska. - read more - 
Darkened Waters: A Review of the History, Science, and Technology Associated with the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill and Cleanup
Homer Society of Natural History/Pratt Museum, 1992 This 60-page large-format publication of the Homer Society of Natural History was written to accompany the Darkened Waters: Profile of an Oil Spill exhibit, an acclaimed educational exhibit created by the Pratt Museum in Homer, Alaska. A traveling version of the exhibit toured museums throughout the country, including the Smithsonian, for a number of years, and a small version of the exhibit is still on display at the Pratt Museum. - read more - 
The Compass Inside Ourselves
Fireweed Press, 1984 This small book of Nancy’s first stories was published in 1984 by the non-profit Fireweed Press as the result of a statewide short fiction contest sponsored by Fireweed and the Alaska State Council on the Arts and judged by Stanley Elkin. - read more - |
Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life
University of Nebraska Press, 2009 In Rock, Water, Wild, Lord takes readers along as she journeys among salmon, sea lions, geese, moose, bears, glaciers, and indigenous languages and ultimately into a new understanding, beyond geographical borders, of our intricate and intimate connections to the natural world. - read more - 
The Man Who Swam with Beavers
Coffee House Press, 2001 In this, Nancy's third collection of short fiction (17 stories), she creates contemporary fables and transformation stories largely inspired by titles and themes belonging to Native Americans, particularly Alaska's Athabaskans. - read more - 
Fishcamp: Life on an Alaskan Shore
Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1997 (hard cover) Counterpoint Press, 1999 (paperback) This book of creative nonfiction shares the natural and cultural history of the place on Cook Inlet, Alaska, where Nancy and her partner, Ken Castner, have commercially fished for salmon since 1979. - read more - 
Survival
Coffee House Press, 1991 This second book of Nancy’s short fiction (15 stories) was the second-place finalist in the 1986 AWP (Associated Writing Programs) short fiction contest and a finalist in the 1988 Flannery O’Connor short fiction contest before being accepted for publication by Coffee House Press. Many of the stories were written while Nancy was enrolled in Vermont College’s M.F.A. writing program, from which she graduated in 1988. Most of the stories appeared in literary journals before being collected in the book. - read more - |
