The full moon-shaped muskeg pond is covered in a thin film of ice. I walk around it, my feet crunching frost, my face haloed in winter sunlight. I’m gathered here among the dried grass and winter-spent, creeping vinelike stems and all around me, are the old ones, those 300-year-old bull pines, bent in wind-shapes. I […]
Vivian Faith Prescott
Vivian Faith Prescott (she/her) was born and raised on a small island, Wrangell, Kaachxana.áak’w, in Southeast Alaska where she currently lives and writes at her family’s fishcamp on the land of the Shtax’heen Kwáan. She’s a member of the Pacific Sámi Searvi, an Indigenous Sami diaspora group, and a founding member of Community Roots, the first LGBTQIA+ group on the island. She mentors Alaskan writers in two writers’ groups: Blue Canoe Writers and Drumlin Poets.