The Divination of Salmon

Trade Paper Original | ISBN: 9798890920379 | Poetry | $16.95 | 95 pp | Trim: 6 x 9” | April 2026

In a remote Alaskan fishcamp, Salmon Woman—a shapeshifting storyteller, scientist, and cultural memory keeper—tells stories by way of poems about the intimate bond between salmon, people, and the place they both call home.   

As these poems shimmer, weave, and flow on the page, they capture the rhythms of rural island life and the changes wrought by climate crisis. Salmon are not just sustenance but identity, and as the environment shifts, so does the lifeweb that binds communities to the fish they depend on. Both warning and wonder, The Divination of Salmon honors ancestral knowledge while imagining a future where resilience and connection endure.

Vivian Faith Prescott (she/her) is a bi writer, born and raised on a small island, Wrangell, Kaachxana.áak’w, in Southeast Alaska. Her children and grandchildren are Ravens and belong to the T’akdeintaan clan from Glacier Bay. She was adopted into that clan. She is a member of the Pacific Sámi Searvi (Sámi are the Indigenous people of Scandinavia) and a founding member of Community Roots, the first LGBTQIA+ group on the island. She is the author of 13 books, including My Father’s Smokehouse: Stories and Recipes from Fishcamp and Old Woman with Berries in Her Lap. Vivian holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an MA in Cross Cultural Studies: Indigenous Knowledge Systems from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She lives and writes as a climate witness in Lingit Aaní at her family’s fishcamp, Mickey’s Fishcamp, on the land of the Shtax’héenKwáan.