Author Night – Elyse Guttenberg

Elyse Guttenberg’s first novel Sunder, Eclipse and Seed received honorary mention for Best First Fantasy by the International Association for the
Fantastic in the Arts. Summer Light and its sequel Daughter of the Shaman, published by HarperCollins, are prehistories set in Alaska 2000 years ago. Other work appears in The Women’s Press Book of New Myth and Magic; Spaceships and Spells; About Place Journal, and  other publications. Her newest novel, The Power We Share, leaves Alaska for the high seas and the adventures of Molly Sinclair, pirate, craft born witch and thief extraordinaire.

Guttenberg received a Fellowship in Literature from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and, with fellow writer Jean Anderson, an Initiative Award to produce Inroads, an anthology celebrating Alaska’s fellowship writers. She is a founder of UAF’s literary journal, Permafrost.

She lives in Goldstream Valley in the home she and her husband Luke Hopkins built Fairbanks style: by themselves, while living without running water, and with the help of many friends.

She will be reading from her novel, Summer Light.