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Kevin performs: upright bass duties as a Super Saturated Sugar String; host and producer duties for the Parlor In the Round (Season Finale, May 20th); Director of Entertainment duties for the Alaska Design Forum Dine By Design Event (May 13th); consultant duties for organizational culture and performance; lunch packing, taxi service and life lesson instruction duties for his 10-year-old boss; and...

Brett Rawalt is essentially a big kid. He is the same height that he was in eighth grade, and PB&J’s are still a main food staple in his life. Even his job at UAA is only a nine-month contract, meaning that he gets summers off to go play. For fun, he likes riding bikes and stressing out his parents.

Issa has six siblings and believes that her love for storytelling is rooted in family dinners, where each person yelled louder and with more charisma to capture the attention of their parents. In recent years, she has been honored to continue to see the strength of stories in her daily work with refugees and working with LGBTQ teens. She is beyond belief honored to be back at Arctic Entries sharin...

Don is a screenwriter and novelist. He wrote the Washington Post Notable novel The Raven’s Gift. A new work on nonfiction, Never Quit, will be out next winter with St. Martin’s. He lives in Anchorage and is a professor at UAA. Sign up for his Spam-letter at www.donrearden.com.

Jason is a lawyer, a college professor, and a cautiously optimistic New York Mets fan. He likes to tell stories.

Paul graduated from high school in Nome, Alaska, and has been with the University of Alaska Anchorage for 17 years. He has a daughter who is an award winning poet, three grand kids, and a wonderful nephew and great nieces. Paul has lived in Nome, Kotzebue, Fairbanks, Barrow, Sitka and Anchorage. He is a former photographer of Alaska fashion for public radio.

Linda is a retired art teacher/artist from NY. She has been a docent at the Anchorage museum for 13 years. She works in a variety of mediums and is best known for her playful paper maché dogs.

Like Bob Dylan, Merlin grew up in northern Minnesota and mumbles. His daughter describes him as a cross between Indiana Jones and Red Green.

As Erica likes to say: if at first you don’t succeed, try a new career. This year alone, she has worked in commercial fishing, hospitality, seamstressing, and as of a couple days ago, she was stuck off the Oregon coast in an enormous storm as she tried to track down nesting sites of Marbled Murrelets. It is always nice to be back on land where the dancing is easier and the next vocation awaits.

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