Above: Featured Video: Mari Boine on the ban of the Saami yoik.

Featured Poem     

I Was In Love With a Boy Who Loved Dog-Sledding (Tidal Echoes, 2010) Finalist Joy Harjo Poetry Award, Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, 2009).

I Was in Love With a Boy Who Loved Dog-Sledding

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Link to my Listing on Poets & Writer's.org

Link to Featured Writer on Alaska 49 Writers. 4.9 Things Writing Teaches.

On the new Alaska Writing Center: Raven House. Featured Writer @ Alaska 49 Writers.

About Me:

Vivian Faith Prescott is an Alaskan resident  born and raised in Wrangell, Alaska and lives in Sitka, Alaska and Puerto Rico (temporarily) with her U.S. Coast Guard-poet-husband, Howie. Vivian is married with four children and many grandchildren. She is of Sáami and Suomalainen descent (among others). Her children are Raven of the T’akdeintaan clan/Snail House. Vivian is Co-Director of Raven’s Blanket, a non-profit designed to enhance and perpetuate the cultural wellness and traditions of Indigenous peoples through education, media, and the arts; to promote artistic works by both Native and non-native Alaskans.