Robert Kinerk

Tales from the Territory: Stories of Southeast Alaska is Robert Kinerk’s first collection of Alaska stories. In compiling it, Bob, who grew up in Ketchikan, drew on his experiences as an Alaskan newspaper reporter, radio announcer, logger, ambulance attendant, bakery-truck driver, grocery-store clerk, and pulp mill employee. He is also the author of Alaska’s longest-running Alaska play, The Fish Pirate’s Daughter, a musical melodrama cited by the Legislature for its contribution to the 49th State’s arts scene. His first book for children, Slim and Miss Prim, won the Western Writers of America Storyteller award in 1997. His next children’s book, Clorinda, was named a Best Book by Child Magazine in 2003. He has written 5 other children’s books and has written musical plays for children. For adults, he has written plays and fiction. His short stories on Alaska subjects have been winning readers on-line and in print for more than thirty years. Tales From the Territory, published in August 2022, is to be followed by another collection and a southeast Alaska novel. Bob has workshopped plays at the Eugene O’Neill Conference and Sundance. He has worked on his fiction at the Bread Loaf Conference, the Writers’ Hotel, and with Tom Jenks in New York City. He and his wife, Anne, make their home in Cambridge, Ma., where he continues to draw on his wide-ranging and heart-felt Alaskan experience for stories and novels and poems