Nancy Lord
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Somewhat New News 

I'll be attending the AWP Conference in Philadephia March 23-26, 2022, where I'll be appearing on two panels--The Edited Voice: The Challenge of Maintaining a Writer's Distinct Voice and Widening the Lens: Diversifying Nature Writing.

Alaska Quarterly Review reading series, Dec. 6, 2020. On an "environmental" theme, I read with Mara Saulitis (reading her sister Eva's work) and Richard Adams Carey.  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3Ts-QiCdes

March 2020. Alaska Story Podcast with Dan Kowalski www.buzzsprout.com/871819/2994763-asp-8-writer-nancy-lord. 
Dan and I met at the annual FisherPoets Gathering in Astoria Oregon in February. He does an excellent podcast series. Check it out! www.alaskastoryproject.com/podcasts

Some recent publications:

"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 Alaskan content. Feel free to alert me to new books or send review copies! ​

Photos from Writing Residency in Wales, November 2019

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