Inupiaq woman wins major writing award

“My husband jokes that he’s probably the only start-up lawyer whose practice is being kept afloat by his poet wife,” she said.
Some of the money will buy health insurance, she said.
She’d also like to take her children and her mother to King Island, an expensive and difficult proposition.
The remote settlement in the Bering Sea was abandoned under pressure from the government in the 1950s. Memories of the deserted village contribute to overtones of loss and change that haunt Kane’s poems. King Islanders retain a strong sense of identity with the place, though members of the younger generation — including Kane herself — have never been there.
Kane hopes to visit small communities in the future, to talk about writing and “bring books to others.”
“As a writer, you have to be concerned when you see all of these towns without bookstores,” she said.

Read some of Kane’s poetry here, here, and here.
Via Reihan.