Jerah Chadwick, Professor and Regional Coordinator, first came to Unalaska in 1982 to raise goats and write, living in an abandoned WW II complex, an eight mile walk to town. From 1982 to 1985, he taught part-time for what was then the Unalaska Rural Education center. After completing his MFA at UAF in 1988, he returned to teach for and coordinate the newly reorganized regional program. He has been active in helping to teach the revived art of Aleut Bentwood Hatmaking through the annual Unalaska culture camp, Camp Qungaayu^x, and has served on the boards of  directors for many Unalaska organizations, including the local museum, school board, arts council, women’s shelter, public library, etc. He is a widely published poet, with STORY HUNGER, his first full-length collection released in a second edition in 2005 by Salmon Publishing of Ireland. In 2004 the Alaska State Council on the Arts appointed him to a two-year term as Alaska State Writer Laureate.