AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS

Best of the Net nomination from Gemini Magazine, 2012

Best of the Net nomination from Untitled Country Review, 2011.

Jason Wenger Excellence in Writing Award, University of Alaska, Anchorage (2011).

My poetry appears in Kingfisher, Drunken Boat, Explorations 2000, Explorations 2001, Avoset: A Journal of Nature Poems, Tidal Echoes, Ice Box, Permafrost, Cutthroat and Cirque.

Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Poetry (2011).

Finalist for the 2008 Joy Harjo Poetry Award at Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, for my poem, “I Was in Love with a Boy Who Loved Dog-Sledding.” 

Finalist for the 2009 Joy Harjo Poetry Award for "Paths of most resistance."

Boulevard's Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers: Honorable Mention (2010).

Honorable mention for a single poem in the 2009 Harold McCracken Poetry Award.

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Who are the Saami?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapp

The Saami people (also spelled Sami) are one of the indigenous people of northern Europe inhabiting Sapmi, which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and the Kola Peninsula of Russia but also in the border area between south and middle Sweden. Their ancestral lands span an area the size of Sweden in the Nordic countries. The Saami people are among the largest indigenous ethnic groups in Europe. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages, which are classified as members of the Finno-Lappic group of the Uralic language family (Wikipedia).