Award-winning author returns to Alaska for fish and stories
Appearances Melinda Moustakis will participate in book signings in the following cities: • Seattle, Olympia and Poulsbo, Wash.; Portland and Eugene, Ore. (Sept. 15-19) • San Francisco, San Jose, Los Angeles and Bakersfield, Calif. (Sept. 21-24) • Anchorage and Palmer (as part of Alaska Book Week, Oct. 14-16) • Sacramento, Calif. (As part of Stories on Stage, Oct. 28) The Flannery O’Connor Award The prize, named after the famed writer of stories about the American South, has been given annually by the University of Georgia Press since 1983. Usually, two prizes are awarded each year. In addition to Moustakis, the 2011 prize went to DePaul University English professor Amina Gautier for “At-Risk.” Previous winners with an Alaska connection include two professors at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Frank Soos for “Unified Field Theory” (1998) and David Crouse for “Copy Cats” (2005).In the process, she had work published in serious literary journals around the country and picked up one of the most coveted prizes in American literature, the 2011 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction.
Her first book, "Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories," will be published in September. She has a string of talks and signings planned that will take her from Anchorage to Bakersfield, Calif.
She's about to start a year as a visiting professor at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Wash.
An impressive resume for a writer who is not yet 30.
But she would rather be fishing.
On a sunny July day she stood on the bow of a boat in the middle of the Kenai River, cocked her pink rod and sent a flesh-colored fly zipping over the glacial gray water.
"Coming up here to fish is how I got through so much school," said Moustakis, who finally received her doctorate from Western Michigan University in May.
Her pilgrimages to the Kenai weren't mere fishing trips, however. They were also her chance to troll for the family lore that fills her tales.
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Moustakis was born in Fairbanks in 1982. She was 5 when her parents moved to California, where she grew up. But she heard of the homestead years, the moose hunts, outhouses and family history from them and -- largely, she said -- from her uncle, Sonny Traxinger.
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Traxinger's cabin also has a wall of fame, a line of photos of grinning friends and family holding trophy rainbow trout. "My goal in life is to be on that wall," Moustakis said. The 13 stories in "Bear Down" are linked by a multi-generational clan of
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