“Fast Into the Night,” my debut memoir, was released by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on February 2, 2016. After a festive book launch in Anchorage, I traveled on a book tour to events in Seattle, Bellingham, Portland, Minneapolis, Boston, Newburyport, and Vermont. In the following months, speaking engagements about Alaska and my story took me to San Diego, St. Louis, and a variety of places in Alaska.

In June 2018, Red Hen Press released the softcover edition of “Fast Into the Night.” I continue to schedule speaking events about my memoir—as well as current writing that explores our relationships with wild places in the context of change.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

2022 EVENTS

SEPTEMBER 2, 4-6 PM IN A TIME OF CHANGE: BOREAL FOREST STORIES. GROUP EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION AT PIONEER PARK BEAR GALLERY.

SEPTEMBER 3, 1 PM LITERARY READING, PIONEER PARK CENTENNIAL CENTER STAGE

SEPTEMBER 3, 7:30 PM LIVE PERFORMANCE, PIONEER PARK CENTENNIAL CENTER STAGE

2018 EVENTS

AUGUST 21, 6:30 PM RED HEN PRESS AT THE ANNENBERG BEACH HOUSE. Santa Monica, California. A literary reading with DEBBIE CLARKE MODEROW, MAURYA SIMON, ELOISE KLEIN HEALY, AMBER FLORA THOMAS. For further information click here

2017 EVENTS

FEBRUARY 2017  IN A TIME OF CHANGE: MICROBIAL WORLDS

 FEBRUARY 11, 4:pm: LITERARY READING AT WELL STREET GALLERY,  FAIRBANKS   A reading from my essay, written for this arts-science-humanities collaboration: “The Narrow Line: Where Art Meets Science”

FEBRUARY 4: 5-8 PM. EXHIBIT OPENING, WELL STREET GALLERY,  FAIRBANKS

NOVEMBER 2015-FEBRUARY 2017

IN A TIME OF CHANGE: MICROBIAL WORLDS. I’m honored to have participated, as a writer, in this arts-science-humanities collaboration through the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The innovative program will culminate with an exhibit at Well Street Gallery, Fairbanks, Alaska in February 2017.

2015-2016 EVENTS

NOVEMBER 5, 2015: BALTO SEPPALA PARK, Presentation to Turnagain Elementary School first graders, in celebration of the Anchorage Park Foundation new interpretive trail.

DECEMBER 5, 2015: ALPINE EXCURSIONS SLED DOG RACE. 50 mile race/fun run to Alpine Creek Lodge on the Denali Highway, Cantwell, Alaska.

DECEMBER 19, 2015: TWO RIVERS DOG MUSHERS SOLSTICE 50. 50 mile race in Two Rivers, Alaska.

JANUARY 12, 2016: ARCTIC ENTRIES, ANCHORAGE. Storytelling on stage in Anchorage’s Performing Arts Center. Seven stories, seven minutes. Listen to the audio of my story, here.

FEBRUARY 2, 2016: FAST INTO THE NIGHT  publication date! 

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2016. 4-6 PM: BLUE HOLLOMON GALLERY, ANCHORAGE.  Join me at a launch party and book signing.

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2016. 3 PM: BARNES AND NOBLE, ANCHORAGE. Book signing. Find details here.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15,2016. 7 PM: THIRD PLACE BOOKS, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON. Find details here.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016. 7 PM: VILLAGE BOOKS, BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON. Find details here.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2016. 7:30 PM: POWELLS CITY OF BOOKS, PORTLAND, OREGON. Find details here.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2016, 4 PM: COMMON GOOD BOOKS, ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA. Find details here.

FEBRUARY 22, 7 PM. HARVARD BOOK STORE, BOSTON MASS. Book signing and presentation. You can find details here.

FEBRUARY 23, 7 PM. JABBERWOCKY BOOKSHOP, BOSTON, MASS. Book signing and presentation. Find details here.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016, 7 PM: NORTHSHIRE BOOKSTORE, MANCHESTER, VERMONT. Signing and presentation. Find details here.

TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2016. 3:30-5:30 PM Signing. 6:00 PM Dinner and Presentation. FIRESIDE BOOKS, PALMER, ALASKA. Find details about both events here.

FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2016. 6:30 Greeting, 7:00 PM presentation and signing: ANCHORAGE MUSEUM AT RASMUSON CENTER. Presentation, book signing, and more. Find details here.

SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 2016. 10-12 PM. Workshop for San Diego Writers Ink, “Animals and Stories: A Clarifying Gaze.” For more information about this workshop, click here.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5. 12-1 PM. Private presentation about “Fast Into the Night,”  for Qualcomm employees, San Diego, California.

TUESDAY, APRIL 5. 7-8:30 PM. CORONADO PUBLIC LIBRARY, SAN DIEGO.  Panel discussion with Debbie Moderow, Kaylene Johnson, Deb Vanasse, and Marybeth Holleman. Find details here:

THURSDAY APRIL 7. 7-8:30 PM. GEORGINA COLE LIBRARY, SAN DIEGO. Panel discussion with Debbie Moderow, Kaylene Johnson, Deb Vanasse, and Marybeth Holleman. Find details here:

TUESDAY AUGUST 2-SATURDAY AUGUST 7. TOOLIK FIELD STATION VISIT. Visit to a scientific research station, part of “In a Time of Change: Microbial Worlds”—a science arts humanities collaboration through University of Alaska Fairbanks.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23-28. SAN DIEGO WRITERS VISIT ANCHORAGE. This is the second installment of the author exchange, through Adventures By the Book, that took Debbie and other Alaskan writers to San Diego in April 2016.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 19. FAIRBANKS. GULLIVERS BOOKS. Evening signing of Fast Into the Night, and presentation.

NOVEMBER 1 AND 2: PRESENTATIONS IN ST. LOUIS, ALASKA WILDERNESS LEAGUE.