helsey Zibell was raised in the village of Noorvik in northwest Alaska. She attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks as a UA Scholar and obtained a BA in English and Iñupiaq Eskimo. She is working on an MA/MFA in Poetry. Chelsey’s goal is to teach high school English (and hopefully Iñupiaq) in rural Alaska and […]

I’ll be honest. I’m not much of a patriot, and I never really have been. As a child, I would put on the English accent I learned from BBC rebroadcasts and fool random strangers into thinking I was visiting from London. While on a high-school trip to Toronto, I took great pride in the overheard [...]