UA Press releases new Alaska Literary Series titles
by Michelle Saport |
The University of Alaska Press has released Entangled: People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay by Marilyn Sigman, In the Quiet Season and Other Stories by Martha Amore and Just Between Us by David McElroy.
Entangled Naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about her quest for wildness and home in Alaska and a nuanced, broader view of natural abundance and human acquisition of wealth. Shifting baselines, a form of amnesia about past ecologies, frame her deep dive into millennia of environmental and cultural change in Alaska's iconic Kachemak Bay. Sigman ponders scientific knowledge and wisdom gleaned from stories of Alaska's indigenous peoples to find a way forward to sustain a bountiful ocean and to feel at home in the throes of a warming, changing world.
Sigman is currently the Marine Education Specialist for Alaska Sea Grant and a faculty member of the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. She has served and taught as a wildlife and habitat biologist, environmental educator, and science communication specialist throughout the state, including more than a decade as a naturalist and director of the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies based in Homer.
Marilyn Sigman will discuss Entangled at the UAA Bookstore on Wednesday, March 28, from 5 to 7 p.m.
In the Quiet Season and Other Stories Martha Amore's In the Quiet Season & Other Stories explores the human landscape of modern-day Alaska. Living at the edge of a great wilderness, the characters in this collection suffer from their own passions and hopes: They want too much. Although they know how to navigate Alaska's harsh terrain, these characters are lost in what happens when dreams die but life continues. In Amore's book, people learn to map a new territory of the heart, after suffering through infidelity, losses, or change.
Amore teaches writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She achieved her Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from UAA, and currently resides in Anchorage with her husband and three daughters. She has published in numerous literary journals. Her debut novella was published in the 2013 anthology Weathered Edge: Three Alaskan Novellas. In 2015, she was named a Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award winner. Her previous book, published by the UA Press, is an anthology titled Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry.
Martha Amore will be joined by local artist Indra Arriaga for the launch of In the Quiet Season and Other Stories at the UAA Bookstore on Thursday, March 22, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Just Between Us Just Between Us is a book of poetry about human connections as seen through language and imagery focused on work and travel through vivid landscapes. From the Arctic to the tropics, rural and urban, whether based on factual experience as a pilot in the north or springing forth from dreams, the imagination is engaged to confront our diversity and commonality. A sense of longing and the desire for intimacy among one another is a major theme of the book.
McElroy lives in Anchorage and recently retired as a commercial pilot of small planes in the Arctic that supported wildlife research, industry and wild fire control.
For more information about these titles and many more, please visit www.uapress.alaska.edu or call (800) 621-2736.
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