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VIVIAN FAITH PRESCOTT
VIVIAN FAITH PRESCOTT 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 GlacierBay. She was adopted into that clan and is a member of the Pacific Sámi Searvi. Prescott is the author of thirteen books and holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Alaska Anchorage and a 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 on the land of the Shtax’héenKwáan.
BEHIND THE BOOK
An interview with Vivian Faith Prescott about the making of her poetry collection The Divination of Salmon (COMING SOON!).
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR
Poems
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.
"A work of witness and wonder, naming both the vanishing and the enduring."
—ALBERTO RIOS, Every Sound Is Not a Wolf