Background
Seth Kantner was born on the 18th of February, 1965 in Kapakavik, Alaska, United States, the son of Howard, a farmer, and Erna Kantner, an acupuncturist.
Seth Kantner
32 Campus Dr, Missoula, MT 59812, United States
Seth Kantner studied at the University of Montana where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Photojournalism.
505 South Chandalar Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United states
Seth Kantner attended the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, United States.
2013
Seth Kantner and Loussac director Mary Jo Torgeson.
2015
Seth Kantner signs a copy of his new book for a young fan.
2015
8745 Glacier Hwy, Juneau, AK 99801, United States
Alaska author Seth Kantner reads to an audience at Hearthside Books in Nugget Mall.
2018
Seth Kantner stands next to his fishing boat outside his home in Kotzebue. Kantner caught twice as much salmon this past summer than in his previous best year fishing.
1967
Erna and Howard Kantner, in the kitchen of their sod igloo at Kapikagvik in 1967.
2013
Seth Kantner and Loussac director Mary Jo Torgeson.
2015
Seth Kantner signs a copy of his new book for a young fan.
2015
8745 Glacier Hwy, Juneau, AK 99801, United States
Alaska author Seth Kantner reads to an audience at Hearthside Books in Nugget Mall.
2018
Seth Kantner stands next to his fishing boat outside his home in Kotzebue. Kantner caught twice as much salmon this past summer than in his previous best year fishing.
32 Campus Dr, Missoula, MT 59812, United States
Seth Kantner studied at the University of Montana where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Photojournalism.
505 South Chandalar Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United states
Seth Kantner attended the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, United States.
Seth Kantner
Seth Kantner
Seth Kantner
The author, Seth Kantner, with some fresh-caught salmon.
Seth Kantner
(Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of...)
Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of us has known: Inhuman cold, the taste of rancid salmon shared with shivering sled dogs, hunkering in a sod igloo while blizzards moan overhead.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1571311211/?tag=2022091-20
2004
(Here, Kantner returns to the setting of his debut novel w...)
Here, Kantner returns to the setting of his debut novel with an autobiographical account of his own life in a rapidly changing land. Beginning with his parents’ migration to the Alaskan wilderness in the 1950s and extending to his own attempts to balance hunting with writing, Kantner recalls cold nights wrapped in caribou hides, fur-clad visitors arriving on dog sleds, swimming amidst ice floes for wounded waterfowl, and his longstanding respect for the old Iñupiaq ways. Captured in words and images, these details combine to reveal a singular landscape at a pivotal moment in its history. Both an elegy and a romp, the book illuminates a world few will see as Kantner has.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1571313117/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(A boisterous wolf pup and an awkward young porcupine are ...)
A boisterous wolf pup and an awkward young porcupine are unlikely allies in this tale of friendship set on Alaska’s tundra. The two grow up as neighbors, but only through helping each other escape from a trapper do they learn what it means truly to be friends. Gently inspired by the fable of “The Lion and the Mouse” Pup and Pokey teaches young readers about living in the wilderness and the sometimes unexpected connections that arise in our lives. Pup and Pokey is the first children’s book from acclaimed Alaska author Seth Kantner. With Kantner’s storytelling and Beth Hill’s original illustrations, Pup and Pokey is a touching outdoor adventure story that only two talented Alaskans could tell.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1602232415/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(Swallowed by the Great Land features slice-of-life essays...)
Swallowed by the Great Land features slice-of-life essays that further reveal the duality in the author’s own life today, and also in the village and community that he inhabits a mosaic of all life on the tundra. Unique characters, village life, wilderness, and the larger landscape, a warming Arctic, and hunting and other aspects of subsistence living are all explored in varied yet intimate stories.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159485968X/?tag=2022091-20
2015
Seth Kantner was born on the 18th of February, 1965 in Kapakavik, Alaska, United States, the son of Howard, a farmer, and Erna Kantner, an acupuncturist.
Seth was schooled by his parents. He then studied at the University of Montana where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Photojournalism and attended the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, United States.
Seth Kantner has worked variously as a trapper, fisherman, gardener, mechanic, and igloo builder. He served as an Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Alaska in 2000. He’s a former columnist for the Anchorage Daily News, and bi-monthly dispatch writer on climate change in the Arctic for Orion magazine, and now has returned to focusing on fishing and fiction.
In 2004 Kantner’s debut novel “Ordinary Wolves” was released to literary acclaim. Since that time, he incorporates national book tours and other publicity into a life previously focused on the land, sea, and daily weather conditions and movements of animals.
Seth also wrote “Shopping for Porcupine: A Life in Arctic Alaska” in 2008, “Pup and Pokey” in 2014, it tells the story of a boisterous wolf pup and an awkward young porcupine, unlikely allies in this tale of friendship set on the Alaska tundra and “Swallowed by the Great Land: And Other Dispatches From Alaska's Frontier” in 2015, it features slice-of-life essays that further reveal the duality in Seth's own life today, and also in the village and community that he inhabits.
Seth lives and works in northwest Alaska.
Seth Kantner’s writings and photographs have appeared in Outside, Alaska Geographic, the New York Times, Prairie Schooner, Orion, and various literary journals and anthologies.
Seth received a Whiting Award naming him one of the nation's top ten emerging writers.
Seth was nominated in 2006 for the position of Alaska State Writer Laureate, which he turned down to pursue work on "Shopping for Porcupine".
(Swallowed by the Great Land features slice-of-life essays...)
2015(Ordinary Wolves depicts a life different from what any of...)
2004(Here, Kantner returns to the setting of his debut novel w...)
2008(A boisterous wolf pup and an awkward young porcupine are ...)
2014Seth Kantner's art reflects his love for northern Alaska and the animals who live there, and his belief in the importance of wildness left wild. Since childhood, Seth Kantner has photographed the vast region where he learned to hunt and fish and where he communed with the native peoples.
Quotations: "We have swallowed technology and are struggling to avoid the shackles that make it work: rules and laws".
Quotes from others about the person
"Seth Kantner's first novel, Ordinary Wolves, is a magnificently realized story about a boy's coming-of-age in a difficult, distant place. His novel comes across as smart and authentic. It's hard to imagine a better start". - Mark Kamine, The New York Times Book Review.
"Shockingly beautiful. Seth Kantner's Ordinary Wolves is to the mind what a chunk of pemmican made from dried caribou, cranberries, currants, and rendered fat is to the body: It's going to stick to your ribs for a long time". - Sarah T. Williams, Minneapolis Star Tribune.
"Suspense and heartache are matched by wry humor and outrage, and all are infused with Kantner’s humility and deep respect for the wild as he decries the practices of high-tech trophy hunters, and maps his own metamorphosis from trapper and hunter to writer and photographer. Crafted with the precision and nerve acquired by living off the land, this is a powerful and important book of remembrance, protest, and warning". - Booklist
Seth Kantner is married to Stacey L. Glaser. They have one daughter, China.
Stacey Glaser earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Montana and a master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Washington. She has been hired as director of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Chukchi Campus in Kotzebue and has been with the campus for more than 21 years.
Stacey served most recently as the director for the Chukchi Consortium Library in Kotzebue, a job that included managing the branch library in the village of Selawik. Glaser created programs that helped connect the library to the Kotzebue community. In 2013, she was elected president of the Alaska Library Association and later led its advocacy committee. Glaser currently serves as the association’s executive officer. In addition to her work at the Chukchi Campus, Glaser has managed the offices of Arctic Backcountry Flying Service and Golden Eagle Outfitters.
