Several months ago, we announced a search for the Anchorage Press’s first hire since the paper’s resurrection from its four-year dormancy.
It took us a while. The response to our posting was amazing, and it took us literally months to work through the many capable resumes that landed on our desk.
Today, we’re thrilled to announce the results of that search: Hannah Dorough, who grew up in Anchorage and returned after working in publishing Outside, is our new arts and culture editor.
Hannah blew us away with her combination of experience, her network in Anchorage, and her sense of humor and story. She started earlier this week, and will be the Press’s new point of contact for our coverage of arts and culture; she’ll also write her own stories and generally contribute to the functioning of the organization.
You can reach her at [email protected], and below is a bio she’s written to introduce herself.
Hannah Dorough is a writer, editor, and Inupiaq woman who has lived ‘almost’ her entire life in Anchorage and can’t seem to stay away.
She graduated with honors from the University of Alaska Anchorage with a bachelor’s in English and a minor in economics, and holds a master’s in creative writing from the University of Birmingham, UK, having graduated with distinction.
Hannah is excited to join the Anchorage Press as the arts and culture editor.
Previously, she worked as an associate editor at Real Simple, an assistant editor at Martha Stewart Living, and interned at ADN when it was briefly called the Alaska Dispatch News.
She is passionate about Indigenous rights, her 2001 Toyota Tacoma, and owning 10 slightly different shades of red lipstick.
Her favorite Alaska movie — definitely not The Sun Never Sets — is Spirit of the Wind, a fantastic film about the famous Athabaskan sled dog racer George Attla. Her favorite Alaska book is Black Lives in Alaska, which she helped edit while at university. Her favorite Alaska band is Brother Buffalo, the Eyak hip-hop duo comprised of brothers Jake and Garrett Swenson, who are helping to revitalize the once-dead Eyak language and feature it often in their songs.