Jeremy Pataky
@pataky.bsky.social
Poet, reader, writer. Publisher at Porphyry Press and Edible Alaska. Author of Overwinter (University of Alaska Press). Living off-grid near McCarthy, Alaska in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park.
Our virtual event for the GetLit Festival in Spokane is live on YouTube! We talked about glaciers, death, lineage, cartoons, and more. With @akwenstrup.bsky.social, @pataky.bsky.social, & Susanna Mishler & John Messick. #AlaskaSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jkuz...
Authors of Alaska | Get Lit! Virtual Event
YouTube video by EWU's Get Lit! Programs
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Erica Watson + Fireside Books in Palmer, Alaska = Twue Wuv. @rickirobin.bsky.social signing 1-4 today!
Can't wait to read "Alaska Literary Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry," forthcoming from @mountaineersbooks.bsky.social. I'm grateful to have contributed poems about a nunatak and a glacier. Pub. date is March 1st, and you can preorder it *tonight* for 25% off with code SPRING26. Or later, sans code
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Went on a little ski from the cabin up McCarthy Creek on Sunday afternoon. Turned around at these two bull moose. Kind of surprised they haven’t shed their antlers yet.
"She takes the award for best new Alaskan voice of 2025." So deems David James about @rickirobin.bsky.social, whose new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, is included in the @adn.com reviewers' favorite books of 2025 list. She and John Messick are signing books today at Title Wave in Anchorage, 3:30-6!
Just in time for the holidays, here are ADN reviewers’ favorite books of 2025
Top selections by Nancy Lord and David James include poetry, works of fiction, adventure stories, a Pulitzer-winning memoir and multiple books that interrogate the changing nature of the North.
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I guess it’s almost time for my annual “drive to Anchorage in an ice storm hellscape” trip, and this time I’ll be signing books at Title Wave on Saturday with my @porphyrypress.bsky.social pressmate John Messick. Come see us if you can? Send road reports? 😬
David James's insightful and positive book review of Erica Watson's GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES appears in both the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and Anchorage Daily News today. It's gratifying to see such a careful and astute take on this book.
A few pics from my first couple book-talking/selling events this last week, in Fairbanks, with @pataky.bsky.social and @coyotetrail.bsky.social & here at Denali. It’s been a lovely transition into this stage of my book’s life!
"Two Old Women" is an adaptation of Velma Wallis' novel of the same name. Wallis's 1993 book is based on an Athabascan legend and takes place before colonization.
The first screen adaptation of 'Two Old Women' is told entirely in Gwich'in
The film will also be shown at the Anchorage International Film Festival on Dec. 13 at 3 p.m.
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Erica Watson@rickirobin.bsky.social · 9mo agoI send out a very occasional newsletter, and I'd love to send it to you too! Given the precarity of all of this, email feels like a more reliable way to let folks' know abt writing news, + other thoughts & Ozzy pics. Here's the latest, signup link in replies www.ericarobinwatson.com/campaigns/vi...
Happy pub day to @rickirobin.bsky.social—@porphyrypress.bsky.social is lucky to be your publisher! (Hilarious about the unwitting woodpiles duet.)
Erica Watson@rickirobin.bsky.social · 9mo agoIt’s always a good sign when you and your publisher take book pics in the wood pile, independently and with zero coordination 😅 If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!
2 weeks from today we'll gather at Gather Fairbanks (ha.) with author Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social and guest Julianne Warren @coyotetrail.bsky.social for the GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES launch party! See you? Nov. 19, '25, doors at 5:30, 721 2nd Ave. · FB event: www.facebook.com/events/13252...
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Thirty Days of Alaska Native Books: Day 4
Celebrating the fourth day of Alaska Native Heritage Month, we’re highlighting “Roughly for the North” by Inupiat writer Carrie Ayagaduk Ojanen. This beautiful book of poetry centers on Carrie’s an…
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Join us in Fairbanks, Alaska for the book launch of Ghosts of Distant Trees. Author @rickirobin.bsky.social will be in conversation with @coyotetrail.bsky.social, hosted by publisher @pataky.bsky.social and Solstice Books. November 19, 2025! porphyry.press/events/ghost...
book launch, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES · Erica Watson with Julianne Warren — Porphyry Press
Porphyry Press & Solstice Books present: GHOSTS LAUNCH You’re invited to the official Ghosts of Distant Trees book launch , the debut memoir-in-essays by Denali-based author Erica Watson and...
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Caught this launch at the Spokane library before it’s time to return to AK… poet Laura Read read from her latest, THE SERIOUS WORLD (Boa Editions) and former WA State Poet Laureate Kathleen Flenniken read from DRESSING IN THE DARK from Lynx House Press. @auntiesbooks.bsky.social sold lots of books!
How’s the Bill Callahan song go? “To hotwire and hightail crosses my mind.”
Both myself and @porphyrypress.bsky.social were kicked off both Meta platforms with no warning and no recourse for no reason last week while traveling in Montana. Time to suss out Substack and Bluesky as alternatives. Cheers to new horizons!
Unhappy to report that both myself and Porphyry Press were kicked off of both Meta platforms with no warning and no recourse for no reason. So! Hello Bluesky. Join me in Fairbanks on Nov. 19 to launch @rickirobin.bsky.social's new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES!
Erica Watson@rickirobin.bsky.social · 9mo agoI know we all hate M*ta, AND it's still where a lot of stuff happens, including book promotion & sales. Unfortunately, my publisher, Porphyry Press, was just kicked off FB & IG for unknown reasons🤨 So, a reminder: it's a perfect time to order ⬇️ or a local bookstore! porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...
