Seth Kantner is an American writer from the state of Alaska who has attended the University of Alaska and studied journalism at the University of Montana. He has worked as a photographer, trapper, fisherman, mechanic and igloo-builder and now lives in Kotzebue, Alaska.[1] His 2004 novel Ordinary Wolves tells the story of Cutuk, a boy who, like the author, was raised and home-schooled in a sod igloo on the Alaskan tundra. The book was published by Milkweed Editions and won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. He followed it in 2009 with a memoir, also from Milkweed, Shopping for Porcupine.

Awards

  • 2005 Whiting Award for nonfiction [2]
  • 2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant to complete his book A Thousand Trails Home[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Seth Kantner: Boston too much for Alaskan to bear". Alaska Dispatch News. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  2. ↑ "Seth Kantner Whiting Award Profile". Whiting.org. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Seth Kantner". Whiting.org. Retrieved 24 January 2018.


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