This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology.

Author: Martha Amore

Publisher: University of Alaska Press

ISBN: 9781602233010

Category: Literary Criticism

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Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state’s population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures of a family—shopping, going out, working—to intimate encounters with Alaska’s breathtaking natural beauty. At a time of great change and major strides in LGBTQ civil rights, Building Fires in the Snow shows us an Alaska that shatters stereotypes and reveals a side of Alaska that’s been little seen until now.

appeared in Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaskan LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, edited by Martha Panschar Amore and Lucian Childs (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2016). “The First Assimilated Sámi in the World” ...

Author: Vivian Faith Prescott

Publisher: Red Hen Press

ISBN: 9781597095822

Category: Fiction

Page: 280

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On an Alaskan island beset by climate change, a Native seeks to preserve history: “An enthralling, engaging, mind-bending, time-bending story collection.” —Garth Stein, New York Times–bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain Tova Agard’s world is literally falling apart: she’s just been disowned by her father in a violent confrontation over her sexuality, and climate change is about to wreak havoc on the world around her. In the midst of catastrophe, Tova meets Smithsonian Institute ethnologist John Swanton on an Alaskan-ferry time machine, trapping Swanton on Tova’s small hometown of Wrangell Island. Tova convinces Swanton that the island’s contemporary stories are worth collecting despite their strangeness: in Tova's oral traditions, a woman becomes a bear, a man marries trees, a UFO hunts deer, and the dead go to Seattle. These forty-three linked tales in the story-cycle are not stories that the Smithsonian intended to collect, but by the time all the tales are told, their reconstruction of history will make a greater impact on the world around them then either Tova or Swanton could have ever imagined. “Cleverly framed, these stories capture a rich island community that is steeped in oral traditions . . . a collection that rewards rereading and rumination.” ―Foreword Reviews

Winner of a Rasmuson Individual Artist Award, she is a contributing editor of the University of Alaska Press anthology Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, which was a finalist for a LAMBDA ...

Author: Jessica Cherry

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 9781496233899

Category: History

Page: 378

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Wheels on Ice reveals Alaska's key role in bicycling both as a mode of travel and as an endurance sport, as well as its special allure for those seeking the proverbial struggle against nature. This collection opens with the first bicycle boom and the advent of the safety bicycle in the late 1800s, at approximately the same time gold was discovered in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. As bicycles evolved, Alaskans were among the first to innovate: the fatbike, for example, evolved from the mountain bike in the late 1980s into a wider-framed bike with fatter tires, making snow biking more accessible and giving birth to the Iditabike race. More recently, ultra-endurance cyclist Lael Wilcox rode all the major roads in the state, totaling more than 4,500 miles of gravel and pavement. Jessica Cherry and Frank Soos's diverse group of stories covers cycling both past and present. From riders commuting in every kind of weather to those seeking long-distance adventure in the most remote sections of the United States, these stories will inspire cyclists to ride into their own stories in Alaska and beyond.

In 2016 Martha Amore and coeditor Lucian Childs were contributing editors of the University of Alaska Press anthology Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry, which was a finalist for a LAMBDA ...

Author: Martha Amore

Publisher: University of Alaska Press

ISBN: 9781602233522

Category: Fiction

Page: 113

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Intro -- Contents -- In the Quiet Season -- Geology -- Pike -- Long Weekend -- Painkillers -- Weathered In -- Acknowledgments

Some of her published works include “Shhh Be Quiet” in the Lambda Literary finalist Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry (2016); “Acrimonious Black Woman Sparks Climate Change Debate with the ...

Author: Beth Widmaier Capo

Publisher: Springer Nature

ISBN: 9783030995300

Category: Literary Criticism

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This handbook offers a collection of scholarly essays that analyze questions of reproductive justice throughout its cultural representation in global literature and film. It offers analysis of specific texts carefully situated in their evolving historical, economic, and cultural contexts. Reproductive justice is taken beyond the American setting in which the theory and movement began; chapters apply concepts to international realities and literatures from different countries and cultures by covering diverse genres of cultural production, including film, television, YouTube documentaries, drama, short story, novel, memoir, and self-help literature. Each chapter analyzes texts from within the framework of reproductive justice in an interdisciplinary way, including English, Japanese, Italian, Spanish, and German language, literature and culture, comparative literature, film, South Asian fiction, Canadian theatre, writing, gender studies, Deaf studies, disability studies, global health and medical humanities, and sociology. Academics, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in Literature, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, Cultural Studies, Motherhood Studies, Comparative Literature, History, Sociology, the Medical Humanities, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights are the main audience of the volume.

A queer coming-of-age and coming-to-terms and a poignant exploration of the ways we search for home, Dreaming Home is a chronicle of the fragmenting of an American family and an exciting debut by Lambda Literary finalist Lucian Childs.

Author: Lucian Childs

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ISBN: 1771965495

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Dreaming Home chronicles the fragmenting of an American family. A sister's casual act of betrayal awakens the father's demons, ones spawned during his time in prisoner-of-war camps in Vietnam. The effects of the ensuing moment of violence against his son ripple out over the course of forty years, from Lubbock to San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale. Swept up in this arc, the members of this family and those they love tell their tales.

Represents : Nonfiction books , novels , short story collections , novellas . ... The Rachel Book , by Karen Brennan ( Norton ) ; The Stars , the Snow , the Fire , by John Haines ( Graywolf ) ; Lessons of the Nordstrom Way , by Robert ...

Author: ERS.

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015046413681

Category: Authorship

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Represents : Nonfiction books , novels , short story collections , novellas . ... The Rachel Book , by Karen Brennan ( Norton ) ; The Stars , the Snow , the Fire , by John Haines ( Graywolf ) ; Lessons of the Nordstrom Way , by Robert ...

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ISBN: 1582970491

Category: Authorship

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Describes thousands of markets for writers, covering magazines, publishers, syndicates, and contests; with information on submission requirements, pay scale, and freelance work, and listings of editors and agents.

Author: Jessie Lendennie

Publisher: Salmonpoetry

ISBN: UOM:39015073655469

Category: English poetry

Page: 480

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They jump out of the frying pan into the fire with absurd frequency , and their experiences are told with engaging cleverness . ... Young people who have read the other stories of the series will never rest without perusing this also .

Author: Leonard Bacon

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ISBN: UOM:39015084515512

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