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Nancy Lord
Andrews Forest Writing Resident (2016)
Nancy Lord is passionate about place, history, and the natural environment. From her many years of commercial salmon fishing and later work as a naturalist and historian on adventure cruise ships, she’s explored in both fiction and nonfiction the myths and realities of life in the north. Among her published books are three collections of short stories and five works of literary nonfiction, including the memoir Fishcamp, the cautionary Beluga Days, and the front-lines story of climate change, Early Warming. In 2016, she edited the anthology Made of Salmon: Alaska Stories From The Salmon Project, and her first novel, pH was published in 2017.