ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BRENDAN JONES lives in Alaska and works in commercial fishing. A Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, he received his BA and MA from Oxford University, where he boxed for the Blues team. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Smithsonian, the Guardian, National Fisherman, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Ploughshares, Narrative Magazine, the Seattle Times, Sierra Magazine, Patagonia, Popular Woodworking, and the Huffington Post, and on NPR. His debut novel, The Alaskan Laundry, won the Alaskana Award and was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. He recently finished work on a Fulbright grant in Siberia, where he lived with his wife, two daughters, and dog.

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