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Carolyn Kremers

Carolyn Kremers

  • P.O. Box 84223
    Fairbanks, AK 99708
  • Phone: (907) 458-8805

Author's Bio

Carolyn Kremers writes literary nonfiction and poetry, and is a dedicated teacher. Her essays and poems have appeared on public radio and in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies. Her book *Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village* is forthcoming in a new soft-cover edition in 2011 from Alaska Northwest Books. She designed and implemented the MFA program in literary nonfiction at Eastern Washington University in Spokane and has also taught at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Eielson Air Force Base, and the Kuskokwim Campus of UA in Bethel. Kremers has been a guest writer at workshops in Alaska, Idaho, Michigan, and Washington, and Artist-in-Residence at Gates of the Arctic National Park. In 2008-09, she was a US Fulbright Scholar at Buryat State University in Ulan Ude, Russia. In summer 2011, she was the Writer-in-Residence at Denali National Park and Preserve. She lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

Publications and Prizes

Books:
The Alaska Reader: Voices from the North (Fulcrum, 2005), Place of the Pretend People: Gifts from a Yup'ik Eskimo Village (Alaska Northwest Books, 1996)
Anthologies:
Cold Flashes: Literary Snapshots of Alaska (University of Alaska Press, 2010), Ice Floe: New and Selected Poems (University of Alaska Press, 2010), Holding Common Ground: The Individual and Public Lands in the American West (Eastern Washington University Press, 2005), A Gradual Twilight: An Appreciation of John Haines (CavanKerry Press, 2003), A Road of Her Own: Women's Journeys in the West (Fulcrum, 2002), The Roadless Yaak (Lyons Press, 2002), Pass/Fail (Red Sky Books, 2001), Under Northern Lights: Writers and Artists View the Alaskan Landscape (University of Washington Press, 2000), American Nature Writing 1999 (Oregon State University Press, 1999), A Whole Other Ballgame: Women's Literature on Women's Sport (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997), American Nature Writing 1997 (Sierra Club Books, 1997), Last New Land: Stories of Alaska Past & Present (Alaska Northwest Books, 1996), The Wilderness of Vision: On the Poetry of John Haines (Story Line Press, 1996)
Journals:
Alaska, Alaska Quarterly Review, Brevity, Ice-Floe, Manoa, Newsday, North American Review, Runner's World

Please note: All information in the Directory is provided by the writers listed in it.
Listing last updated: August 8, 2011

More Information

Listed as:
Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet
Gives readings?
Yes
Travels for readings?
Yes
Identifies as:
Caucasian
Prefers to work with:
Any
Born in:
Denver, CO
Raised in:
Denver, CO

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