Tom Kizzia traveled widely in rural Alaska during a 25-year career as a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. He is the author of the bestseller Pilgrim’s Wilderness, chosen by the New York Times as the best true crime book set in Alaska, and the Native village travel narrative, The Wake of the Unseen Object, now re-issued in the Alaska classics series of the University of Alaska Press. His latest book, Cold Mountain Path, The ghost town decades of McCarthy-Kennecott, Alaska 1938-1983, was published last month by Porphory Press. Tom’s journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017. He received an Artist Fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation and was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University. A graduate of Hampshire College, he lives in Homer. You can find his website at - www.tomkizzia.com