Ann Chandonnet

ANN CHANDONNET is a journalist, book reviewer, culinary historian and poet. She received an MS in English literature from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. During her thirty-four years in Alaska, she won awards from Alaska Press Women, an award for her series about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome from the Alaska Press Club, and a national poetry award in wilderness writing. Her poems have appeared in anthologies, including Last New Land: Stories of Alaska Past and Present, In the Dreamlight, Hunger and Dreams: The Alaskan Womens Anthology, Black Sun, New Moon, and A Long Line of Joy. Chandonnet’s last poetry collection is Canoeing in the Rain: Poems for My Aleut-Athabascan Son (1990). Her book, Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew to Hoochinoo (2005), won an Outstanding Book Award from the American Association of School Librarians. Her latest culinary book, Colonial Food (2013), explores the foodways of the original thirteen colonies, including Native American food.