Mary Kancewick

Mary Kancewick

Mary Kancewick has degrees in journalism (Medill) and law (University of Chicago) and has written about and worked on Alaska Native issues for thirty years, as well as teaching as an adjunct for the University of Alaska at its Fairbanks, Anchorage, and Dillingham campuses, and raising two sons and a daughter.  She has co-authored two still-cited law review articles on Alaska Native sovereignty and subsistence, and has published poetry and non-fiction in various venues, including Canada’sSaturday Night magazine and the Sitka Symposium anthology From The Island’s Edge, published by Graywollf Press.  Mary lives in Alaska’s Chugach Mountains with her husband, fourteen year old daughter, and the exchange students who keep her sons’ rooms filled while the boys are off pursuing degrees in physics and philosophy.  She is currently working on an opera set in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on an issue-based Middle East travel memoir.