Ordinary Wolves

Seth Kantner (born 1965) is an American writer raised in the wilderness of northern Alaska. He attended the University of Alaska and studied journalism at the University of Montana, working as a trapper, fisherman, photographer, and igloo-builder, and now lives in Kotzebue, Alaska. His debut novel Ordinary Wolves (2004) won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award and Milkweed National Fiction Prize, establishing him as a prominent voice in Alaskan literature; he has since published memoirs and essays including Shopping for Porcupine and A Thousand Trails Home.