Haines writer Shannon Donahue just returned to town after a monthlong stay at the Storyknife writers’ retreat in Homer. 

During that time, Donahue was awarded the Evangeline Atwood fellowship, which came with a $1,000 stipend.  She also published a Chilkat Valley-based lyric poem in the latest edition of the quarterly Catamaran Literary Reader. 

Donahue talked with editor Rashah McChesney about what has informed her writing and what she’s working on now. 

This conversation has been…

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...