Kris Farmen's guest appearances

Kris Farmen

Arctic Entries

Alaska Authors and Themes

John Muir

Tom Clancy

Keenan Powell

John Haines

Eva Baker

John Morgan

Donna Freedman

Chris Floyd

David Vann

Lee Goodman

David Brown

Dan O'Neill

Eowyn Ivey

Daniel Lee

Tom Sexton

OwlTail

Eowyn Ivey’s new book To the Bright Edge of the World and Kris Farmen’s new book Blue Ticket will be the topics for this literary gathering.   Kris Farmen is an Alaskan novelist, historian, and freelance journalist. His first novel, The Devil's Share, drew high critical praise. His writing has also appeared in Alaska magazine, The Anchorage Press, The Surfer's Path, and Mushing magazine, among others.  He lives on the lower Kenai Peninsula. Eowyn Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. Her debut novel The Snow Child was a finalist for the Pulitzer, a UK National Book Award winner, and a New York Times bestseller.Topics included in the discussion are using myth and history, Alaska place names and landscape, for writing fiction.

Eowyn Ivey’s new book To the Bright Edge of the World and Kris Farmen’s new book Blue Ticket will be the topics for this literary gathering. Kris Farmen is an Alaskan novelist, historian, and freelance journalist. His first novel, The Devil's Share, drew high critical praise. His writing has also appeared in Alaska magazine, The Anchorage Press, The Surfer's Path, and Mushing magazine, among others. He lives on the lower Kenai Peninsula. Eowyn Ivey was raised in Alaska and continues to live there with her husband and two daughters. Her debut novel The Snow Child was a finalist for the Pulitzer, a UK National Book Award winner, and a New York Times bestseller. Topics included in the discussion are using myth and history, Alaska place names and landscape, for writing fiction.

 Eowyn Ivey and Kris Farmen:  Alaska Authors together for Readings and Discussion

Martha Amore

Alaskan Novellas

Alaskan contributors to "Weathered Edge" discuss their stories that have been  described as "a powerful portrait of human nature, tied to the land in Alaska, and yet as timeless and broad reaching as the oceans themselves".  Kris Farmen is author of "The Devil's Share" and the book "Turn Again".  Martha Amore teaches writing at UAA.

Weathered Edge:  Three Alaskan Novellas with Kris Farmen and Martha Amore