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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
Set in an Alaskan fish camp, these vividly drawn poems show the beauty of family amid seascape changes wrought by the climate crisis.
In this splendid collection, Vivian Faith Prescott introduces the storyteller Salmon Woman who weaves scenes of sea and community in poems that bring the journey of salmon–and salmon people–to life. Salmon and people are intimately connected on this remote island where all beings face the ravages of change and the unexpected relationships that bind them together.
"A work of witness and wonder, naming both the vanishing and the enduring."
—ALBERTO RIOS, Every Sound Is Not a Wolf