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# Local Author Receives Individual Artist Award Grant
- URL: https://ktna.org/local-author-receives-individual-artist-award-grant/
- Published: 2015-05-19T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-05-19T08:00:00.000Z
- Description: 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
- Author: Phillip Manning
- Tags: Local News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 01:28

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.