Seth Kantner was raised close to the land in Alaska’s Brooks Range, and he works now as a commercial fisherman on the northwest coast of that state. In 2004 he leapt onto the nation’s literary stage with his debut novel, Ordinary Wolves. The book, reviewed in Orion here, became a bestseller, winning the Milkweed National Fiction Prize and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award. Kantner also received a Whiting Award, naming him one of the nation’s top ten emerging writers. His new nonfiction book, Shopping for Porcupine, is coming out in 2008 from Milkweed Editions.

From his vantage – both as a resident of the Alaskan coast and a man who grew up attuned to the land and its ways – Kantner experiences climate change and globalization almost daily. Many of us read about these changes; Kantner and his neighbors are living them. Orion will post a new dispatch here twice a month as Kantner chronicles the story of change coming to his land, and his doorstep.

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Dispatches From the Edge

As a resident of the Alaskan coast and a man who grew up attuned to the land and its ways — Kantner experiences climate change and globalization almost daily. Many of us read about these changes; Kantner and his neighbors are living them. Orion will post a new dispatch here twice a month as Kantner chronicles the story of change coming to his land, and his doorstep.