Vivian Faith Prescott was born and raised on the island of Kaachx̱ana.áakʼw, Wrangell, Alaska, in the Alexander Archipelago. She lives and writes as a climate witness in Lingít Aaní on the land of the Shtax’heen Kwáan at Mickey’s Fishcamp near Keishangita.aan, Red Alder Head Village. She’s a member of the Pacific Sámi Searvi and a founding member of Community Roots, the first LGBTQIA group on the island. She’s the author of three poetry collections, five chapbooks, a book of linked short stories, and a foodoir. Along with her daughter, Vivian Mork Yéilk’, she co-hosts the award-winning Planet Alaska Facebook page and Planet Alaska column appearing in the Juneau Empire.

Praise

Vivian Faith Prescott's poems powerfully interweave stories of family, place, and life with wild salmon. Rich with memory, Fat for Our Stories is an intimate and authentic portrait of the deep, meaningful relationship between wild salmon and people in Alaska—and of the ways the rhythms of that relationship are changing.
—Mary Catherine Martin, SalmonState Communications Director

Vivian Faith Prescott is a wonder. The real deal. A poet living a poet's life. Reading Fat for our Stories feels like praying.
—Heather Lende, Alaska Writer Laureate

To read Vivian Faith Prescott’s new collection, Fat for Our Stories, is to navigate the rings of an otolith. Herein is the life-web of wild salmon and our reliance upon a thriving stock in a changing climate. Readers bear witness along this intricate coastline where offerings are made, knowledge is handed down through stories, generationally, and loss, grief, and adjustment are maneuvered with grace. This collection is both poignantly aware and present.
—Kersten Christianson, author of Curating the House of Nostalgia