Try out Befuzzled this Saturday at Hearthside Books & Toys in the Nugget Mall!
Nugget Mall 789-2750 and 254 Front St. 586-1726
Richard Dauenhauer received his academic training in European languages and Comparative Literature. He has lived in Alaska since 1969 and is a former poet laureate of the state. His publications include three volumes of poetry, many poems and translations in various journals and many scholarly articles. Major works in progress include completed drafts of "Erotic Epigrams," love poems translated from the Greek Anthology, and the first English translation of the Buriat-Mongol oral epic "Young Alamzhi Mergen."
Nora Marks Dauenhauer was raised on a family fishing boat in a traditional Tlingit-speaking family. After raising a family, she completed her GED and a BA in anthropology. She has been working with Tlingit oral tradition for about 30 years. Her work in creative writing and Tlingit folklore has been widely anthologized.