Vanessa Wolf
Ms. Wolf was born in Indiana and spent much of her childhood touring the United States. Moving to Alaska in late 1990 she lived in the North Star Borough. The seventh of nine children, her youth showed promise in fields of animal care. Graduating high school in 1999 at the age of 14 she began college at U.A.F while building her parent's home in North Pole. Ms. Wolf has worked a variety of jobs, from construction to museum docent, and a free lance writer. Ms. Wolf was a ski-jour racer until the retirement of her team. Achieving her bachelor's in English she became disillusioned with academia politics, she pursued a Master's in Business Management, graduating in 2011. Divorcing a fellow poet in 2003, she moved to Ester, AK and began working on her second book.
Moving to Seattle in the fall of 2011 with her partner and three cats, she is working on her third book.
“Good,” and Judge Robertson began to ramble on about the benefits and drawbacks of living with either parent. Penny’s attention wandered, she had stopped pretending the judge’s eyebrow’s had metamorphosis into butterflies and began to wonder if any adult actually read the books on these walls, and if she flipped through would she find blank pages after a while, or a joke page, just to surprise someone who actually sat through the book. That’s what she would do if she had to write something so awful, and who would want to check? -Child of Fire”
“Tomb dust in my tears and skinThe living avoid me, the deadDeny me.-Lies of the Living”
“Could she stick her hand in that sink? Did she dare put in the drain plug? Every time she moved toward it, she shrank back, terrified and guilty,”