Sarah Birdsall has lived in Alaska most of her life, with many of her formative years spent in remote parts of the state. She is the author of the award-winning novels The Red Mitten (McRoy & Blackburn, 2006), and Wild Rivers, Wild Rose (University of Alaska Press, 2020), the latter of which was the 2021 WILLA Literary Award Winner in Historical Fiction. An additional novel is forthcoming from Epicenter Press. Her short fiction has appeared in the Alaska Quarterly Review and Alaska Women Speak, and she is a Rasmuson Foundation award recipient. She is also the author of The Moonflower Route (McRoy & Blackburn, 2017), Ghosts of Talkeetna (Northern Nights Press, 2013) and the young adult book, The Moon and the Night (Northern Nights Press, 2013). A former award-winning journalist, she has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska Anchorage and lives in her hometown of Talkeetna, Alaska.
