LESLIE LEYLAND FIELDS is a writer, speaker and professional editor who lives on Kodiak Island, Alaska in the winter and Harvester Island in the summer, where she works in commercial salmon fishing with her family. She has written/edited 7 nonfiction books of memoir and essays on a variety of subjects, including the spirituality of food, wilderness, commercial fishing, and parenting. She loves to travel, and spent several years trekking around the world, through Asia, S.E. Asia, Africa, Europe, and Central America. She still travels often, leaving Kodiak to speak at conferences, churches, retreats, and universities around the country.
Leslie has written for many publications including The Atlantic, Orion, Image: Art, Faith Mystery, Beliefnet, Christianity Today (where she writes a column, "Stones to Bread") Christian Science Monitor, Books and Culture, and many others. Her essays have appeared in On Nature: Great Writers on the Great Outdoors; It's a Girl: Women Writers on Raising Daughters; A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild, and many others.
She has three graduate degrees in Creative Nonfiction, English and Journalism.
Leslie has taught for many years in both undergraduate and graduate programs in Oregon, Alaska and Washington and now continues to teach through college visits, frequent radio appearances, speaking, and her professional writing business, The Northern Pen.
Leslie and her husband Duncan have 6 children, a daughter and 5 sons, all of whom work in salmon fishing every summer. You can reach her at northernpen@alaska.com
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"Great reading... Readers will be amazed by their stories." -- Alaska Fish Radio. "Truly remarkable portraits of courage." -- Alaska Fisherman's Journal
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VERY INTRESTING,THROUGH THE EYES OF ALASKAN FISHING WOMEN,
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a great book that takes your mind for a ride on the most dangerous job in the world,fishing in alaska and being a woman too.
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A great book about some great women in a great environment!,
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This is a well written book about fascinating women. I know many of the women Leslie writes about and all are perfectly illustrated by the rich text within the book. Good job!
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Fascinating look at the lives of women working in Alaska.,
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This book made the struggles and accomplishments of Alaska's fishing women a great read! I felt like I got to know these women as friends.
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MAY 26, 1978, BEAR ISLAND (OFF KODIAK ISLAND), ALASKA Bear Island looks so small and lonely, so desolate. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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