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 upcoming works include the young adult novel The Trail to Eagle Rock; a collection of award winning short sketches, An Alaskan Almanac; the memoir Traveling Home; and three collections of Letters From the Bush: Little Russian Mission, Pt. Hope, and Rampart.

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; 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 graduate work and accept a private school principal’s position in a southern California adolescent psychiatric hospital.

Currently, with Dr. Mary Ellen Barnes he is also the author of the highly regarded How to Quit Drinking on Your Own. Dr. Wilson divides his time between his Alaskan writing and his work as co-founder and Program Director of Your Empowering Solutions on California’s Palos Verdes Peninsula.