Gwen Karella Mathis

Gwen Karella Mathis, author of A Bohemian Dream, is also a travel blogger who has written extensively about her travels around the world. Her ancestors emigrated from Bohemia to New York and then to Nebraska in the 1800s. Her parents drove to the Territory of Alaska in 1949, and Gwen was born in the Territory before Alaska became a State in 1959. She and her nine siblings were raised in the interior Alaskan City of Fairbanks.