Winter Words 2020 with Caroline Van Hemert 

The 49 Writers Board of Directors and Staff

are pleased to invite you to

WINTER WORDS
A Literary Celebration
and Fundraiser
with Special Guest

Caroline Van Hemert
author of The Sun is a Compass

Please join us for a winter tea

Sunday, February 23, 2020 | 2 PM
at the home of Barbara Hood and Dirk Sisson

Tickets: $75 per person

49 Writers Board
Anchorage: Barbara Hood, President · Matthew Komatsu, Vice President · Gabriela Olmos · Carol Richards · Carla Beam, Secretary · Seward: Shauna Potocky · Juneau: Katie Bausler · Dan Branch · Cordova: Ron Andersen, Treasurer · Fairbanks: Cameron Leonard

and staff members
Jeremy Pataky, Executive Director
Amy O'Neill Houck, Communications

About Caroline Van Hemert

Caroline Van Hemert is an Alaskan writer, adventurer, and wildlife biologist whose journeys have taken her from the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean to the swamps of the Okavango Delta. She is the author of The Sun is a Compass: A 4,000-mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds, which recently received the 2019 Banff Mountain Book Competition award. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Audubon, Los Angeles Times, and Outside. She currently works as a research biologist and studies wildlife health in the north. When she’s not traveling, she divides her time between a remote off-the-grid cabin in southeast Alaska and a cozy home in downtown Anchorage, where she lives with her husband and two young sons.