On Tuesday, the Rasmuson Foundation announced that Talkeetna author Sarah Birdsall will receive one of this year’s Individual Artist Award grant. Birdsall is the recipient of one of twenty-five Project Grants, worth up to $7,500. According to the Rasmuson Foundation, she will use the grant to build a small, portable writing studio to help complete the first draft of her new novel, Wild Rivers, Wild Rose. Sarah Birdsall’s previous works include The Red Mitten and Ghosts of Talkeetna.
The grant is part of a program begun by the Rasmuson Foundation in 2003 to provide support to individual working artists across Alaska. Rasmuson says it has awarded a total of 373 grants, totaling over $3.1 million, since the program began.
