Jan Steinbright

Jan has lived in Alaska for 33 years working with Alaska Native people from all of the eight major cultural divisions. Her travels took her to the tundra, to the Pacific Ocean on her tugboat out of Sitka and up into the mountains of Haines. She worked with Native carvers, basket makers, skin sewers, boat builders, poets, writers, performers, and contemporary visual artists.

From these rich experiences, she draws memories and dreams, molding them into both fictional stories and nonfiction accounts of people and places.

Jan worked for 18 years with the Institute of Alaska Native Arts in Fairbanks, later as director of the Southeast Alaska Indian Cultural Center in Sitka and professor at Sheldon Jackson College in the Native Studies Department. She is the author of six books, one of them, Raven House Mouse, is for children to acquaint them with the Tlingit culture of southeast Alaska.

Currently living in Sitka, Alaska, Jan continues to, produce stories of the land and the people.