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2008 Sitka Symposium Faculty |
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WILLIAM deBUYS is professor of Documentary Studies at the College of Santa Fe. From 2001 through 2004 he served as chairman of the Valles Caldera Trust, which administers the 89,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve under an experimental approach to the management of public lands, and from 1997 to 2004 he directed the Valle Grande Grass Bank in San Miguel County, New Mexico. He is the author of six books, including River of Traps, a 2001 Pulitzer Prize finalist, and, most recently, The Walk. |
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ALISON HAWTHORNE DEMING is the author of three books of poems and three books of nonfiction, most recently Genius Loci (Penguin Poets 2005) and Writing the Sacred Into the Real (Milkweed Editions). Her new poetry collection Rope is forthcoming, and she is completing a collection of short essays titled With Animals in Mind: A Bestiary for the 21st Century. She lives in the Sonoran Desert city of Tucson and on the Bay of Fundy island of Grand Manan. She teaches creative writing at the University of Arizona. |
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VERNITA KATCHATAG HERDMAN, an Inupiaq from Unalakleet, Alaska, worked for thirteen years as an advocacy coordinator for the Rural Alaska Community Action Program in Anchorage. Throughout those years she dedicated herself with unflagging passion to preserving inherent tribal hunting, fishing and gathering rights. She went on to work for The Wilderness Society as a tribal liaison, continuing her work on federal legislation regarding Alaska Natives and the land. She is now retired and lives with her family in Anchorage. |
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DON SNOW is Senior Lecturer of Environmental Humanities at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. For eighteen years, he directed the Northern Lights Research Institute in Missoula, Montana, and co-edited Northern Lights Magazine, a regional journal of place. Snow’s essays and reviews have appeared in High Desert Journal, Orion, Sierra, and Utne Reader, among other magazines. His seven books, most of them collaborations with other editors and writers, include Northern Lights: A Selection of New Writing from the American West and The Book of the Tongass. |
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