
Clifton Bates
Author
Clifton Bates is an Alaskan writer and longtime educator whose stories, poems, essays, and plays draw from a life spent observing people and place closely, from Bethel and the Kuskokwim River villages to Hong Kong and Thailand. His work reflects a patient, careful writer with a deep respect for culture, landscape, memory, and the quiet truths that make a story last.

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