Vivian Faith Prescott is the author of two previous collections, Silty Water People (Cirque Press) and The Hide of My Tongue (Plain View Press), and five chapbooks. Her work appears in numerous journals including Cirque Journal, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and the Yellow Medicine Review, among others. She is a recipient of the Alaska Literary Award, two Rasmuson Fellowships, and the Jason Wenger Award for Literary Excellence. A member of the Pacific Sámi Searvi, she lives and writes at her family’s fish camp in Wrangell, Alaska.