Jean Anderson

Fiction Writer

Fairbanks, AK
Alaska US
Email: 
jeananderson509@yahoo.com

Author's Bio

My collection HUMAN BEING SONGS: Northern Stories will be published by the University of Alaska Press in its Alaska Literary Series in February 2017. The collection was selected as a finalist in 2015 and 2016 for the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Fiction from BkMk Press at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
The Alaska Reader (Fulcrum, 2005)
,
The Last New Land (Alaska Northwest Books, 1996)
,
In the Dreamlight (Copper Canyon Press, 1984)
,
Hunger & Dreams (Fireweed Press, 1983)
Books:
In Extremis (Plover Press, 1989)
,
Inroads: Alaska's 27 Fellowship Writers - fiction, poetry, plays (co-editor) (ASCA, 1988)
Journals:
Alaska Quarterly Review
,
Chariton Review
,
Connotations
,
Kalliope
,
Northern Review
,
Permafrost
,
Polyarnya Izvezda
,
Prairie Schooner
,
Stories
,
Sugar Mule

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Born in: 
St. Louis
Raised in: 
St. Louis, MO
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Last update: Nov 10, 2016