Monica Devine

Creative Nonfiction Writer

Eagle River, AK

Alaska US

Email:

monicadevine@gmail.com

Website:

www.monicadevine.com/

Twitter/X:

@MonicaDevine3

RSS feed:

www.monicadevine.com/

Author's Bio

Monica Devine is the author of Water Mask, a collection of essays reflecting on family, place, culture and memory set against the background of her home in Alaska. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a first-place winner of the Alaska State Poetry Contest, and her piece On The Edge of Ice won first place in creative nonfiction with New Letters journal. She has authored five children’s books and was a nominee for the celebrated Golden Kite award for Iditarod: The Greatest Win Her writing and photographs have appeared in Stoneboat, Cirque, Alaska Magazine, Children’s Television Workshop, Alaska Frontier Magazine, Spirit First and three anthologies. Her current area of study is figurative ceramics. View her website Image Sculpture Verse at monicadevine.com.

Publications & Prizes

Book:

Water Mask (University of Alaska Press, 2019)

Prizes won:

BOOKS:

2019: Water Mask, University of Alaska Press (memoir/prose)

2012: Kayak Girl, University of Alaska Press

2007: Hanna Bear’s Christmas, Fitzhenry & Whiteside

2001: Carry Me, Mama, Fitzhenry & Whiteside

1997: Mountain Climbing, Perfection Learning

1997: Iditarod: The Greatest Win Ever, Perfection Learning

1991: Baby Talk, Insight Books (hardback); Berkley Books (soft

Nominee: 2012 Pacific Northwest Book Association Award for Kayak Girl
First Place 2012: 18th Annual Alaska Statewide Poetry Contest for my poem, No One Thing

Nominee 1998: For the celebrated Golden Kite Award for outstanding non-fiction, Iditarod: The Greatest Win Ever (Perfection Learning)

Winner of the 2003 Best Creative Non-fiction Award with the literary journal New Letters, for the piece On the Edge of Ice (about accompanying a whaling crew in the Arctic)

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Born in:

Michigan

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Last update: Jul 15, 2019