The Dead Go to Seattle

Vivian Faith Prescott is a fifth generation Alaskan, born and raised in a multi-cultural family on the small island of Wrangell in Southeastern Alaska. She lives in Wrangell near the Red Alder Head Village site at her family's fishcamp, Mickey's Fishcamp. She holds an MFA from the University of Alaska and a Ph.D. in Cross Cultural Studies. Her poetry has appeared in The North American Review, Yellow Medicine Review, Prairie Schooner and Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Anthology (University of Georgia Press). Vivian married into a Tlingit family and has four grown children and she was adopted into their clan, the T'akdeintaan, Snail House, and given the Tlingit name Yéilk' Tlaa, Mother-of-Cute-Little-Raven. Vivian is the founding member of Blue Canoe Writers in Sitka and Flying Island Writers and Artists in Wrangell with an emphasis on mentoring Indigenous writers. She's a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and received the Jason Wenger Award for Literary Excellence, in addition to a Rasmuson Fellowship (2015). She's a two-time semi-finalist for the Joy Harjo Poetry Award and a semi-finalist for the Colorado Prize for Poetry. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Slick (White Knuckle Press) and Sludge (Flutter Press), plus a full length collection, The Hide of My Tongue, and one short story collection, The Dead Go to Seattle (Boreal Books/Red Hen Press, 2017).