Dan Branch

Dan Branch lives in Juneau, Alaska. His essays and poems have been published in Kestrel, Cardiff Review, Gravel, Metonym, Tahoma Literary Review, Punctuate, Stoneboat, Swamp Ape, Windmill, and Portland Magazine. He received an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Alaska Anchorage. During the past 25 years he has written quarterly columns for The Alaska Bar Association Rag and articles for The Anchorage Daily News. He lived for over 13 years in villages along the Kuskokwim River in Western Alaska, where he provided legal aid first as a VISTA lawyer and then as a State of Alaska employee. This experience is recounted in his memoir, "Someday I'll Miss this Place Too," published in 2021.