UA Press releases new Alaska Literary Series titles
February 16, 2018
The University of Alaska Press has released "Entangled: People and Ecological Change
in Alaska’s Kachemak Bay," by Marilyn Sigman; "In the Quiet Season and Other Stories," by
Martha Amore; and "Just Between Us," by David McElroy.
"Entangled: People and Ecological Change in Alaska’s Kachemak Bay"
Naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes about her quest for wildness and home in Alaska and
a nuanced, broader view of natural abundance and human acquisition of wealth as she
explores millennia of environmental and cultural change in Alaska’s iconic Kachemak
Bay.
Sigman is currently the Marine Education Specialist for Alaska Sea Grant and a faculty
member of the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences.
"In the Quiet Season and Other Stories"
Martha Amore’s "In the Quiet Season and Other Stories" explores the human landscape
of modern-day Alaska. In Amore’s book, people learn to map a new territory of the
heart, after suffering through infidelity, losses or change.
Amore teaches writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Her previous book, published
by the UA Press, is an anthology entitled "Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection
of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry."
"Just Between Us"
"Just Between Us" is a book of poetry about human connections as seen through language
and imagery focused on work and travel through vivid landscapes. A sense of longing
and the desire for intimacy among one another is a major theme of the book.
McElroy lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and recently retired as a commercial pilot of
small planes in the Arctic that supported wildlife research, industry and wild fire
control.
