About Annie

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 Originally from Anchorage, Alaska, she now lives in Fairbanks with her family. Annie received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Fairbanks Alaska and her Masters of Fine Arts from Stonecoast, the University of Southern Maine's low-residency program.

Annie held a Museum Sovereignty Fellowship with the Smithsonian  Arctic Studies Center (Alaska office) supported through a Journey to  What Matters grant from The CIRI Foundation, and was an Indigenous  Nations Poets Fellow in 2022 and 2023. Her poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere.

Annie's Writing is Supported by:

Whiting Foundation, 2025 Whiting Award Recipient

The New England Review and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference (2024)

The Alaska State Council for the Arts in partnership with the Alaska Arts and Culture Foundation 

Alaska Literary Award  (2023)

The Rasmuson Foundation (2023)

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
(2023).

Indigenous Nations Poetry.
Inaugural and Returning Fellow (2022, 2023)

Inuit Art Quarterly.
Indigenous Art Writing Fellow (2023)

Smithsonian Arctic Studies
Fellow (2021)

Storyknife.  
Fireweed Fellow (2021)

Poets & Writers and Reese's Book Club
Open Doors Grant Recipient 2021

The CIRI Foundation
Grant and Scholarship Recipient