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Novelist and journalist writing from Sitka, Alaska where he lives with his, with his wife, three daughters, six chickens, and one dog.

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A Good Dog in a Cold Place

A memoir of an Alaskan family's year in Irkutsk, Siberia, on a Fulbright.

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Praise for the Alaskan Laundry

The Alaskan Laundry — 2017 Alaskana Award

“This is a truly towering debut novel. Brendan Jones charts new novelistic territory and sends back moving dispatches from the frontiers of the human heart.”

-Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofThe Orphan Master's Son

"This novel is a rarity—a gripping, straight-forward, old-fashioned novel about coming of age (a woman, no less) in Alaska. It is reminiscent of the best of Wallace Stegner."

-Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning author ofIndependence Day"; 

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A Democratic upset is brewing in Alaska’s governor’s race as Trump’s popularity craters
A Democratic upset is brewing in Alaska’s governor’s race as Trump’s popularity craters


This July, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins spent four days and 450 miles (725km) wending his way down the Yukon River in a 24ft Alweld skiff, a flat-bottomed aluminum boat built for shallow Alaska rivers.

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Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it
Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it

After a historic land buyback by the US Forest Service, Tlingit crew members are demolishing culverts to restore streams, salmon runs and cultural history deep in the Tongass national forest.

Photograph: blickwinkel/Alamy

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In the Shadow of the Grand: A Reflection on the Life ofMichael Gardner
In the Shadow of the Grand: A Reflection on the Life ofMichael Gardner

The world-renowned alpinist and extreme sports athlete died on October 7, 2024, while attempting to climb Jannu East (7460m) in Nepal with Sam Hennessey. Before his fall we had been working together on a profile. The piece has since become a tribute. Photo: Drew Smith

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Living in the Alaska rainforest with 1,000 bears: ‘Not the easiest place to be homeless’
Living in the Alaska rainforest with 1,000 bears: ‘Not the easiest place to be homeless’

As housing prices increase in the picturesque town of Sitka, those already living on the edge are pushed off further into the wilderness

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No Passport Needed: Svalbard
No Passport Needed: Svalbard

Adventures in Svalbard.

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