Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes
Elisabeth Fairfield Stokes’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Time, the Washington Post, Eater.com, and elsewhere. She teaches writing at Colby College.
A Conversation With Blair Braverman, Author of ‘Welcome to the Goddamn Ice Cube’
Two writers with roots in Alaska talk landscape, identity, survival, and the problem with the term alpha male.
How the Fairbanks Four Finally Found Freedom
George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts, and Eugene Vent — better known as the Fairbanks Four—spent 18 years in prison for a murder they didn’t commit. On the anniversary of the crime, a look at how their incarceration exposed the deep racial divides within the local community.
The Danger of Making Assumptions About Privilege
On checking privilege in a shaming culture.
Letters to Prison
In 1989 in Fairbanks, Alaska, Byran Perotti killed Johnny Jackson in cold blood. The community's silence around the murder compounded the shock of the crime itself.