Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series: Seth Kantner and Rosemary McGuire

A public reading featuring authors Seth Kantner and Rosemary McGuire

 
 

The Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series is hosting a public reading featuring two ²ÝÁñÉçÇø authors, Seth Kantner & Rosemary McGuire on Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 in the BP Design Theatre at 6 p.m. AKST. There is a zoom option available for those who are unable to make the event in person.

Seth Kantner is the author of five books, most recently A Thousand Trails Home: Living with Caribou. He has written essays, a memoir, and a children's book; his debut novel, Ordinary Wolves, was recipient of a Whiting Award. Kantner is also a commercial fisherman and wildlife photographer in Northwest ²ÝÁñÉçÇø. Rosemary McGuire is an essayist, memoirist, and fiction writer. She is the recipient of a Rasmuson Foundation grant and has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. McGuire is the author of three books, most recently the essay collection Cold Latitudes.

In their writing, both Kanter and McGuire address questions of ²ÝÁñÉçÇøn identity and Arctic communities. Their narratives are informed by lived experience and precisely observed detail, documenting the nomadic and determined lifestyles of the Far North.

 

What:

Date: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Time: 6 pm AKST

Location: BP Design Theatre (4th Floor)

Joseph E. Usibelli Engineering Learning and Innovation Building

University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Fairbanks Troth Yeddha’ Campus

1764 Tanana Loop, Fairbanks, AK 99709

Zoom Option Available:

 

Headshot of author Seth Kantner in a parka outside in the snow

Seth Kantner

Seth Kantner is a commercial fisherman, writer and wildlife photographer. He was born and raised in northern ²ÝÁñÉçÇø and his art reflects his love for this land and the animals who live on it, and his belief in the importance of wildness left wild.

In 2004 his debut novel, Ordinary Wolves, was released to literary acclaim. Publisher's Weekly called it "A tour de force." The Los Angeles Times named the book "A rare thing of beauty." The novel won the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award, and Seth received a Whiting Award naming him one of the nation's top ten emerging writers. Since that time, he incorporates national book tours and other publicity into a life previously focused on the land, sea, and daily weather conditions and movements of animals.

 

Rosemary McGuire

Rosemary McGuire is a life-long ²ÝÁñÉçÇøn. Her short story collection, The Creatures at the Absolute Bottom of the Sea, was published by the University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Press in 2015, and has since been anthologized multiple times. Her commercial fishing memoir, Rough Crossing, won the River Teeth Nonfiction Book Prize in 2016, and was a finalist for the Women Writing the West WILLA award in 2018. Rosemary’s work has been supported by Rasmuson Foundation grants, and by residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Hedgebrook, Djerassi, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. Her latest book, Cold Latitudes, nonfiction about her experiences in the Arctic and Antarctic wilderness, was published by the University of ²ÝÁñÉçÇø press in April 2021.

 

Headshot of author Rosemary McGuire taken outdoors in the winter

This event is brought to by the ²ÝÁñÉçÇø Department of English and Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series.