Teeka A. Ballas has worked as a freelance writer and editor, and staffer and stringer for newspapers, international wire services, travel publications, and radio. The cofounder of F Magazine, Ballas has worked tirelessly for seven years as editor and publisher of Alaska’s only volunteer-run, independent arts and culture publication. As of 2015, she has placed the magazine on hiatus while she focuses her attention on working with her partner, Dawnell Smith, on a multimedia project that entails an art documentary, a dual memoir, and an audio slideshow collectively titled, “Exhuming My Father.”