Cinthia Ritchie, columnist, Anchorage Daily News, author, Hunger, a memoir; Cleaning Up, a novel. Winner of 2004 Rosalie Fleming Creative Nonfiction Award, 2004 Brenda Ueland Prose Award, 2004 William Faulkner Writing Competition finalist. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction published in New York Times Magazine, among many others.

“An extremely talented writer, with an exceptional voice. The language is beautiful and flows smoothly. ...This is the work of a very sophisticated writer, and a powerful new voice.”
—Tobias Wolfe