Mistee St. Clair is the author of This Morning is Different, a 2021 Alaska Literary Award grantee, and has poems in Split Rock Review, Northwest Review, SWWIM Every Day, Sky Island Journal and others. She is of northern European and Tanana Athabascan descent and is an enrolled member of the Native Village of Minto. She lives in Lingít Aaní (Juneau, Alaska), a northern rainforest, where she raises two fledging sons and works seasonally for the Alaska State Legislature. In the off-season she gravitates toward the sun.