As Persephone

Annie Wenstrup is a Dena’ina poet from Anchorage, Alaska, living in Fairbanks. Her debut book of poetry, The Museum of Unnatural Histories, is forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press (March 2025). Her poems have been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, New England Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. Her writing is supported by the Stephen Donadio Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholarship (2024), the Alaska Literary Award (2023), the Rasmusson Foundation (2023), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2023), Indigenous Nations Poets (2023, 2022) and Storyknife Writers Retreat. She is currently the alumni and donor relations coordinator at Indigenous Nations Poets.