Interview with Ben Ferguson just published: see at the end of "Other Writings."

A Literary and Artistic Field Guide to Alaska has been delivered to Mountaineers Books. The pub date is spring 2026. (I know, seems like a long way away.)

AWP conference coming to LA in March 2025, organizer and panelist on "Older and Wiser or Older and Invisible?" with Valerie Miner and others.

 July 2024--I gave the keynote, plus a talk, workshop, and reading at Alaska Pacific University's MFA summer residency. Check out that program at www.alaskapacific.edu/programs/creative-writing/

April 2024 -- The Friends of the Homer (Alaska) Public Library honored my as the 2024 Lifelong Learner. The title of my talk was "What I've Learned About Learning and the Fight to Control It." I later reworked this as a blogpost for 49Writers: https://49writers.org/what-ive-learned-about-learning-and-the-fight-to-control-it-by-nancy-lord/#comment-25021

September 2023 --  I was on a panel with poet Jane Hirshfield in Anchorage to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the UAA/APU Consortium Library. The conversation, which included  Stephanie Holthaus (Climate Action Advisor for The Nature Conservancy Alaska and founder of the Women on Climate Initiative of TNC North America)  and Marie Tozier (Alaska Native poet, Nome) was called "Ways of Knowing: Poetry, Science, and the Environment.”
Here is the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_Yo_1tF_Hw&t=3s

June 2023 -- I recommended some Alaska books on the wonderful website shepherd.com. See https://shepherd.com/best-books/authentic-alaska-by-alaskans


Some recentish publications:

"Hellgrammite" in The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts. Published on-line on 5/20/24. Matterpress

​"My Name is Robin Pelkey," in Catamaran, summer 2023 issue.

"Test Drive to the Arctic" in May 2023 Alaska Magazine. This is about an electric vehicle road rally up the Dalton Highway to the oil fields.

"Slate" (my Wales essay), in terrain.org. November 2021. www.terrain.org/2021/nonfiction/slate/

"Thousands of Islands, Millions of Birds" in Refuge: America's Wildest Places, photography by Ian Shive, 2020

“My Life Lagoons,” Catamaran, Sept. 2020.
 
“On the Dark Forest Road,” About Place Journal, May 2020.
 
"Adak Island: Aleutian Crossroads" (article), Alaska Magazine, July-August 2019

“Come Help Me” (story), winner of Green Stories competition, publication in Resurrection Trust (anthology), Retreat West, 2019

"The Lonely Islands" (essay), Alaska Quarterly Review with a photo essay by Irene Owsley. Vol. 36, No. 1 & 2, Summer/Fall 2019. Link: aqreview.org/the-lonely-islands-attu-and-kiska/

"Let Them Tell You" (story),  Saltfront: Studies in Human Habit(at), No. 8, Fall 2019

I write twice-monthly book reviews for the Anchorage Daily News. These are of books (not self-published) by Alaskans or with Alaska content. Feel free to alert me to new books or send review copies! ​

Photos from Writing Residency in Wales, November 2019