Ann Fox Chandonnet

Ann Fox Chandonnet is an American poet.

She was born and raised in Massachusetts. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1965). She has lived in Chugiak, Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Vale, North Carolina, and O'Fallon, Missouri.

Her poems have appeared in magazines including Permafrost, Ice Floe, Abraxas, New Kauri, MidAtlantic and Calapooya Collage.

Ann worked as a staff writer/reporter for the now-defunct Anchorage Times from the early to mid-1980s. From the cover to her book "Colonial Food": "Ann Chandonnet is a food historian, poet and journalist. She is a member of the Culinary Historians of Washington, D.C., and is the author of the award-winning "Gold Rush Grub" and "The Pioneer Village Cookbook."

Works

• "On a Human Scale", Ploughshares, Spring 1979
• "Sacraments in Simple Things", Wild Goose Review, Summer 2009

Poetry

• At the fruit-tree's mossy root: the Marsh Hill idylls. Wings Press. 1980.
• Canoeing in the Rain: Poems for My Aleut-Athabascan Son. Meredith Bliss. 1990. ISBN 978-0-9622738-2-7.
• Ptarmigan Valley: Poems of Alaska. Boulder, CO: Lightning Tree Press. 1980. ISBN 978-0-89016-053-4.
• Auras, Tendrils. Penumbra Press. ISBN 0-920806-45-7.

Non-fiction

• A History of Alaskan Totem Poles. John Hinde Curteich, Inc. 2003.
• Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew to Hoochinoo. University of Alaska Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-889963-71-6.
• Alaska Heritage Seafood Cookbook. Graphic Arts Center. 1995. ISBN 978-0-88240-469-1.
• Alaska's Arts, Crafts & Collectibles. Chandonnet Editing & Research. 1998. ISBN 0-9662999-0-6.
• "Write Quick": War and a Woman's Life in Letters, 1835-1867. Winoca Press. 2010. ISBN 0-9789736-9-0.
• Colonial Food. Shire Publications Ltd. 2013. ISBN 9780747812401.

Anthologies

• Robert Hedin, ed. (May 1984). In the Dreamlight: 21 Alaskan Writers. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 978-0-914742-76-0.
• Kathleen Aponick, ed. (January 1992). Merrimack: A Poetry Anthology. Loom Press. ISBN 978-0-931507-05-2.
• Wayne Mergler, ed. (October 1, 1996). The Last New Land: Stories of Alaska, Past and Present. Alaska Northwest Books. ISBN 978-0-88240-483-7.