In the vast, roadless expanse of the Far North, the art of story-telling has thrived for many generations, as it does in this diversely drawn anthology. Men and women share harrowing survival tales, hunting and fishing adventures, and stories about love, lifestyles, and the hopes and dreams of unique and independent people in faraway places throughout Alaska.

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Robert A. Andrews, Haines; Iva May Baker, Kotzebue; Nancy G. Berkey, Sedro-Wooley, Washington; Albert Bowling, Anchorage; Ethel “Katie” Qalingak Cruthers, Kotzebue; Lucy Nuqarrluk Daniels, Golovin, Alaska; Robert A. Dillon; Sheila Ann Sigvaun Gregg, Deering; Burton William Siliamii Haviland Jr., Kotzebue; Kathryn Ann Lenninger, Fairbanks; Marcus R. Miller, Haines; Joli Brian Morgan, Bethel; Wilma C. Payne, Pueblo, Colorado; Steven W. Pilz, Wisconsin; Gina Marie Pope, Bristol Bay region; Karl Puckett, Great Falls, Montana; Amy S. Reisland-Speer, Healy; Emma Ivalu Stalker Snyder, Kotzebue; John August Iguan Walker, Kiana; Stephen J. Werle, Noatak; Sonja Jean Whitethorn, Petersburg; and Terrence B. Wilson.

SUSAN B. ANDREWS is a professor of journalism and humanities after having been a TV producer for the Northwest Arctic Borough School District and news director at the CBS affiliate in Fairbanks.

JOHN CREED, likewise a professor of journalism and humanities at Chukchi College, is a former reporter for the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner who also worked as a schoolteacher in rural Alaska. In the 1980s, Susan and John, a wife-and-husband team, founded Chukchi News and Information Service, a cultural journalism project that features UA student writing in newspapers, magazines, and on websites. The anthology “Authentic Alaska: Voices of Its Native Writers” was compiled from the Chukchi News project, winning a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Alaska Press Club’s Public Service Award.