Sarah BirdsallSarah Birdsall has lived in Alaska most of her life, with many of her formative years spent in remote parts of the state. She is the author of the award-winning novels The Red Mitten (McRoy & Blackburn, 2006), and Wild Rivers, Wild Rose (University o Alaska Press, 2020), the latter of which was the 2021 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Historical Fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Alaska Women Speak, and Cirque. She is a Rasmuson Foundation award recipient. A former award-winning journalist, she has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage and lives in her hometown of Talkeetna, Alaska. Read More Read Less