About Tom
Tom Kizzia traveled widely in rural Alaska during a 25-year career as a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. He was named 2022 Historian of the Year by the Alaska Historical Society for his book Cold Mountain Path. He is also the author of the bestseller Pilgrim’s Wilderness, an Amazon top-ten book of the year, chosen by the New York Times as the best true crime book set in Alaska, and the Native village travel narrative, The Wake of the Unseen Object, now re-issued in the Alaska classics series of the University of Alaska Press. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, the Columbia Journalism Review, and in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2017. He received an Artist Fellowship from the Rasmuson Foundation, an arts and culture grant from the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism, and a Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University. A graduate of Hampshire College, he lives in Homer, Alaska.
“Dear John McPhee”
A short profile of Tom by Julia O’Malley for the Rasmuson Foundation
Fishing the Flats
On sending my son off to Bristol Bay
Grace Notes at the End of the Road
When the college kid showed up in Homer and took over the local weekly paper.
