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In Ghosts of Distant Trees, Erica Watson traces the layered ecologies of Denali National Park, Alaska-its vast, shifting landscape, seasonal labor rhythms, and the subtle politics of inhabitation. Through lyric and narrative essays, she explores how built environments like Denali's single road shape encounters with land, gender, weather, and community. Turning from iconic vistas to gravel, orange peels, and garden beds, Watson asks what it might be like "to get to know a place without immediately thinking of what threatens it." Haunted by fire and thaw, these essays resist elegy, offering instead a complex meditation on belonging, vulnerability, and the fragile intimacies that persist in a warming world. This is writing attuned to detail, disruption, and the ethics of attention.

About the Author :
Erica Watson is an essayist, writing instructor, knitter, and occasional community organizer living on the boundary of Denali National Park, Alaska. Her experiences in conservation advocacy, tourism, and environmental education inform her writing, which has appeared in Terrain.org and About Place Journal, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Alaska Anchorage MFA program, and a recipient of an Alaska Literary Award. Off the page, she can be found at ericarobinwatson.com, or hiking and skiing with her partner and dog.

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"With her immersive, deeply considered essays, Erica Watson proves to be one of Alaska's finest contemporary writers. Ghosts of Distant Trees is place-based' writing at its best, blending observation and memoir with philosophy and attitude. Anyone who wishes to know what it's like to live at the edge of Denali National Park, or in the world today, will find Watson to be an informed and engaging storyteller." -Nancy Lord, former Alaska Writer Laureate and the author of Fishcamp and Early Warming "To a visitor, 'gateway town' connotes the scenic entrance to a National Park. When you live in such a place, it's a more complicated term, as 'sublime' abuts 'mundane.' Erica Watson grew up in an NPS family and lives near Denali National Park, on Dene lands. In these insightful essays, she lays open the nuance that decades in a subculture can bring: wolves and wonder and quiet, and also abortions and elections, gravel pits and noise. 'I always find myself drawn back into the in-between areas, ' Watson writes. By turns researched and intimate, questing and irreverent, Watson digs into the in-between glossed over by promotional campaigns and offers stories of living on land, among neighbors and beings, at the edge of the still-wild world."-Christine Byl, author of Dirt Work and Lookout"Firmly rooted in landscape and community, the essays of Erica Watson's The Ghost of Distant Trees are wise and stunningly self aware. Watson is a sharp, unsparing observer and a penetrating thinker; literally and figuratively, she leaves no stone unturned as she travels from an Arizona girlhood to an Alaska womanhood."-Joe Wilkins, author of


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781736755853
  • Publisher: Porphyry Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Porphyry Press
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 194
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 281 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1736755854
  • Publisher Date: 01 Nov 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
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  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Width: 140 mm


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