Cathryn Klusmeier is a writer and commercial salmon fisherman living and working in Southeast Alaska. She holds a MSc in Medical Anthropology from the University of Oxford and her work often revolves around the links between landscapes, resilience, and health—both human and ecological. She is currently pursing her MFA in writing at the University of Iowa and at work on a book about commercial fishing, climate change, and personal history in Alaska. Cathryn is the winner of the 2016 Crazyhorse Creative Nonfiction Prize, runner-up for the 2019 Missouri Review Editors’ Prize, and winner of the MIT Media Lab’s 2018 Resisting Reduction Essay Competition. She is an author in a forthcoming book from the MIT Press.
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