Camelia Bell joined the ranks of published authors in Haines with a piece called “The Road,”  which came out in The Sun magazine’s March 2025 edition. In response to a prompt about “chores,” Bell wrote about how life in Haines and walking home is not a chore, but a way of life. Bell said she was surprised to learn that her piece had been accepted for publication as she wrote it for Alex Van Wyhe’s

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...