Jerah Chadwick is a former resident of the Aleutian Island of Unalaska, where he raised goats and wrote poetry while living in an abandoned World War II military compound for seventeen years. In 1988, he began teaching for and directed the University of Alaska extension program for the Aleutian/Pribilof Island region. He holds degrees from Lake Forest College, Illinois, and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. His work was chosen for an Alaska State Council on the Arts Writing Fellowship, and his poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies in the United States, Canada, and Ireland. He is the author of three chapbooks as well as a volume of poetry, Story Hunger.