Winner of the 2022 Green Earth Book Award for Whispering Alaska, published by Penguin/Random House, Brendan is a climate writer who lives in Sitka, Alaska, with his wife, three daughters, six chickens, and one dog.
As featured in
BOOKS & UPCOMING WORK
Upcoming: Americans in Siberia
A memoir of an Alaskan family’s year in Siberia.
Whispering in Alaska, 2022
It’s been four months since the death of their mother when twins Josie and Nicky move with their father from Pennsylvania to a small town in Alaska to be near extended family. The twins find the wilderness mysterious and beautiful - a much-needed refuge.
The Alaskan Laundry, 2017
In waters as far and icy as the Bering Sea, a fierce, lost young woman finds herself through the hard work of fishing and the stubborn love of real friendship.
SUBSISTENCE & FAMILY
Brendan is an essayist, novelist, and journalist who writes about environmental issues concerning the Tongass rainforest. Follow along with his family’s subsistence lifestyle on a remote island in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest by exploring his blog, the Tug Chronicles.
Read the Tug Chronicles.
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