• New York Public Library, USA
• San Diego Public Library, USA
• Pikes Peak Library District, Colorado Springs, USA

Publisher of Nominated Edition
Milkweed Editions ISBN 1571310444

From the opening pages of Ordinary Wolves, the voice of Cutuk tells a story from America's last frontier. He lives with his brother, sister, and father, Abe -"our best friend, no dad at all" - in an igloo in remote Alaska. Outside, caribou, bears, moose, and ravens move under frozen pastel skies.

A day's journey away, in the Iñupiaq village, live Cutuk's adopted family, the Wolfgloves: Enuk, a legendary hunter; his son Melt, savaged by alcohol; Melt's wife, Janet; and their daughter, Dawna, Eskimo princess and carrier of Sears catalogue collages and hopes for the future.
In the far distance, the grinding machine of America drones on-and approaches.

Seth Kantner was born and raised in the wilderness of northern Alaska. He attended the University of Alaska and the University of Montana, where he received a B.A. in journalism. He has worked as a trapper, fisherman, gardener, mechanic, igloo builder, and adjunct professor. His writing and photographs have appeared in Outside, Prairie Schooner, Alaska, Switch!, Reader's Digest, and other anthologies and publications. He lives with his wife and daughter in Kotzebue, Alaska.