Please register to join us on Zoom on Thursday, October 22 at 6pm Alaska Time for September’s Live from Storyknife event. Participants will read from their current work. A recording of the event will be available from this page afterwards.
Melanie S. Hatter is the author of Malawi’s Sisters; The Color of My Soul; and Let No One Weep for Me, Stories of Love and Loss. Her forthcoming novel All the Pain We Endure will be released by 1455 Press in November 2026.
Natasha Somji’s (she/her) work centers around the infinite ways we are grieving the selves we could not become and how this breaks us and forces us to reshape ourselves. Her writing is supported by VONA, Vermont Studio Center, and now Storyknife. She resides in Atlanta with her partner and dog.
Tanya Tyler is Diné from Sanostee, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. She is an MFA candidate studying creative nonfiction and fiction at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Her work has been published in Yellow Medicine Review and included in other anthologies. She currently resides in Albuquerque.
Gretchen Wehmhoff, an Alaska journalist and publisher of The Skagway News, has received multiple awards for her humor columns and features on Alaskans. She continues to write for Alaska-based magazines, as well as nonfiction, poetry, and memoir. Her current project explores the history of Girl Scouting in The Last Frontier.
