Seth Kantner is an American writer from the state of

Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S., ...

who has attended the

University of Alaska The University of Alaska System is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Alaska. It was created in 1917 and comprises three separately accredited universities on 19 campuses. The system serves nearly 30,000 full- and part-time stud ...

and studied journalism at the

University of Montana The University of Montana (UM) is a public research university in Missoula, Montana. UM is a flagship institution of the Montana University System and its second largest campus. UM reported 10,962 undergraduate and graduate students in the fal ...

. He has worked as a photographer, trapper, fisherman, mechanic and igloo-builder and now lives in

Kotzebue, Alaska Kotzebue ( ) or Qikiqtaġruk ( , ) is a city in the Northwest Arctic Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. It is the borough's seat, by far its largest community and the economic and transportation hub of the subregion of Alaska encompassing t ...

. His 2004 novel ''Ordinary Wolves'' tells the story of Cutuk, a boy who, like the author, was raised and home-schooled in a sod

igloo An igloo (Inuit languages: , Inuktitut syllabics (plural: )), also known as a snow house or snow hut, is a type of shelter built of suitable snow. Although igloos are often associated with all Inuit, they were traditionally used only b ...

on the Alaskan tundra. The book was published by

Milkweed Editions Milkweed Editions is an independent nonprofit literary publisher that originated from the ''Milkweed Chronicle'' literary and arts journal established in Minneapolis in 1979. The journal ceased and the business transitioned to publishing. It relea ...

and won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. He followed it in 2009 with a memoir, also from Milkweed, ''Shopping for Porcupine.''

Awards

* 2005

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...

for nonfiction * 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete his book ''A Thousand Trails Home''

References

External links

Profile at The Whiting Foundation
21st-century American novelists Living people People from Northwest Arctic Borough, Alaska University of Montana alumni Writers from Alaska Year of birth missing (living people) University of Alaska alumni American male novelists 21st-century American male writers {{US-fiction-writer-stub