Ernestine Hayes

Author Saankalaxt' (Ernestine Hayes) is a member of the Wolf House of the Kaagwaantaan. Her book, Blonde Indian, an Alaska Native Memoir, won the 2007 American Book Award, was a HAIL (Honoring Alaska Indigenous Literature) recipient, and a finalist for the 2007 Kiriyama Prize and the PEN award. Grandmother of four, she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of Alaska Southeast.