Seth Kantner

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Seth Kantner
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater University of Alaska
University of Montana
Notable awards Whiting Award (2005)

Seth Kantner is an American writer from the state of Alaska who has attended the University of Alaska and studied journalism at the University of Montana. He has worked as a photographer, trapper, fisherman, mechanic and igloo-builder and now lives in Kotzebue, Alaska. [1] His 2004 novel Ordinary Wolves tells the story of Cutuk, a boy who, like the author, was raised and home-schooled in a sod igloo on the Alaskan tundra. The book was published by Milkweed Editions and won a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. He followed it in 2009 with a memoir, also from Milkweed, Shopping for Porcupine.

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References

  1. "Seth Kantner: Boston too much for Alaskan to bear". Alaska Dispatch News. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
  2. "Seth Kantner Whiting Award Profile". Whiting.org. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
  3. "2017 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grantee: Seth Kantner". Whiting.org. Retrieved 24 January 2018.