About Ed Wilson

Bush Foundation Creative Writing Fellow, and award-winning non-fiction writer, Edward W. Wilson begins a new series of mystery novels with Kodiak Island featuring psychotherapist Ethan McLaren. A former resident of Kodiak, and a long-time rural Alaskan, Dr. Wilson’s works include the young adult novel The Trail to Eagle Rock; and two memoirs: VISTA Alaska – The Little Russian Mission Letters, 1969-1970 and A Teacher on the Yukon, The Rampart Alaska Letters, 1972-1977.

During his years in the Bush, Dr. Wilson worked as a Political Advisor to the Alaska Village Council Presidents’ Association on the Kuskokuim River at Chauthbaluk. He also worked as a teacher at Tigara School in Pt. Hope on the northwest Arctic Coast. During the 1970s he operated the K-12 one-room school in Rampart on the Yukon River where he also worked as a commercial salmon fisherman and placer miner.

During his years on Kodiak, he worked as a mental health counselor for the U. S. Coast Guard, did assessments for the island’s Mental Health Center, taught at the high school, and occasionally wrote articles for the newspaper. He left Kodiak in 1993 to complete his Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology and accept a position creating a private secondary school in a southern California adolescent psychiatric hospital.

He is also the author of the highly regarded and research-based “Guide to AA: Who it Helps, Who it Harms, Who it Kills & Why.”

Currently, semi-retired, Dr. Wilson divides his time between his clients (www.non12step.com) and writing both fiction and non-fiction.

Upcoming Fiction writings include Harbor Lights (2025).

Upcoming Nonfiction writing includes A Teacher in the Arctic, The Pt. Letters, 1970-1977 (2024); Sessions (2024).