Ann Fox Chandonnet

At the top of the Chestnut Ridge trail in South Mountains State Park, North Carolina.

Ann Fox Chandonnet is an American poet.

She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1943 to Leighton Dinsmore Fox and Barbara Amelia (Cloutman) Curran. She graduated from Lowell University in 1964 with a B.S. and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1965 with an M.A. in English Literature. She married Fernand L. “Fern” Chandonnet in 1966 and they have two sons, Yves and Alexandre. 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 reporter for the now-defunct The Anchorage Times newspaper from 1982 to1992 and the Juneau Empire from 1999 to 2002.

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. Forest Grove, Or.: 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. Moonbeam, Ont.: Penumbra Press. 1984. ISBN 0-920806-45-7.
• The wife. Chugiak, Alaska: Chandonnet. 1979.
• The wife: part 2. Chicago, Ill.: Adams Press. 1979.

Non-fiction

• A History of Alaskan Totem Poles. Camarillo, CA: John Hinde Curteich, Inc. 2003.
• Gold Rush Grub: From Turpentine Stew to Hoochinoo. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-889963-71-6.
• Alaska Heritage Seafood Cookbook. Anchorage: Graphic Arts Center. 1995. ISBN 978-0-88240-469-1.
• Alaska's Arts, Crafts & Collectibles. Anchorage, AK: Chandonnet Editing & Research. 1998. ISBN 0-9662999-0-6.
• "Write Quick": War and a Woman's Life in Letters, 1835-1867. Bethel, Maine: Winoca Press. 2010. ISBN 0-9789736-9-0.
• Colonial Food. Oxford: Shire Publications Ltd. 2013. ISBN 9780747812401.
• Alaska's Inside Passage. New York: Compass American Guides. 2009. ISBN 9781400009022.

Anthologies

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